situation. ian lee reporting live from london. many thanks to you. hundreds more migrants are arriving in greece coming from the island of kos. almost 21,000 migrants arrived in greece just last week alone. cnn international correspondent arwa damon went to the turkish coast and here is her report on their often dangerous trip. reporter: a rubber dinghy packed with migrants takes on the turkish coast guard. ignoring the coast guard s horn, glaring spotlight and orders to return to shore, then lost from view. just before dawn we are on the same waters.
find a new home across the sea. it s not far but it s dangerous. arwa damon has more. reporter: a rubber dinghy packed with migrants takes on the turkish coast guard. ignoring the coast guard s horn, glaring spotlights and orders to return to shore. then, lost from view. just before dawn we are on the same waters. [ speaking foreign language ]. that s the boat we were filming. the turkish ghost card asks our captain for help towing the migrants to shore. they are syrian shouting they don t have a motor any more and want to return to dry land. help us, help us, the men cry out as our captain tosses a rope. the coast guard had chaised them for two hours and finally the
away because the rubber dinghy was half deflated already. reporter: a baby was among the victims caught by an exploding gas cylinder as the women gathered around a cooking stove. this afternoon we watched as the injured were brought to hospital in sicily. wounds so long unattended leave lives in the balance. here the survivors will belatedly get the medical help they immediate, but despite the best efforts of surgeon, doctors say they they may live, many will bear the scars of their journey forever. the smugglers responsible have not been caught. no doubt, they re busy with their next boatload of human misery. for itv news, sicily. the man at the center of a fatal police shooting is breaking his silence saying he s still stunned he took someone s life. plus, with more u.s. states legalizing the use of marijuana,
to get water. somebody prepare to save their lives. more on the victims and where they re being treated. reporter: from the mediterranean, this ocean of man-made misfortune, a ship of horrors. rescue team whose have saved so many poor souls this wake say they have seen nothing yet to match this suffering. migrants, mostly women, disfigured by burns from an accident onshore than cast out to sea in a sinking dinghy. the smugglers they paid had abandoned the injured and the dying to their fate. the traffickers would not allow them to leave and reach the hospital. so they did not get treatment for a few days, and then they were put on a boat, on a rubber dinghy, and when rescuers arrived they had spent two days at sea, but they were drifting
disfigured by burns from an accident on shore then cast out to sea in a sinking dinghy. the smugglers they paid handsomely for their journey abandoned the injured and dying to their fate. the traffickers would not even allow them to reach the hospitals so they did not get treatment for a few days and then they were put in a boat. a rubber dinghy. and when rescuers arrived, they had spent two days at sea but they were drifting away because the rubber dinghy was half deflated already. reporter: a baby was among the victims caught by an exploding gas cylinder that the women gathered around the cooking stove. this afternoon, we watched as the injured were brought to hospital in sicily, wounded so long untended leave lives in the balance. there, the survivors will