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UPDATE: 6.5-year-old girl drowned in Corinth; father arrested

August 23, 2022 FEATURED, Society, Very Mix Comments Off on UPDATE: 6.5-year-old girl drowned in Corinth; father arrested

A 6.5-year-old girl was found unconscious under a boat at the beach of Kalamaki in the Saronic Gulf of Isthmia by Corinth on Monday afternoon. Authorities arrested the father, a foreign national, on Tuesday. According to a statement by the Greek Coast Guard, the body of the girl was discovered …

British tourist drowned at beach by Heraklio on Crete

August 8, 2020 Very Mix Comments Off on British tourist drowned at beach by Heraklio on Crete

A 65-year-old British tourist drowned Saturday noon at the beach of Stalida by Heraklio on the island of Crete. The man was found dead a few meters away from the beach. According to local media information, the lifeguard on duty at the beach saw a man floating face down in …

Refugee toddler drowns outside camp in West Peloponnese

October 6, 2019 Refugees Comments Off on Refugee toddler drowns outside camp in West Peloponnese

A refugee toddler was found to have drowned in the sea outside the refugee camp at LM Village in Myrisini of the municipality Andravida-Kyllini on Sunday. Sharma, the child of a Syrian refugee family, was 2.5 years old. The body of the child was found to be floating in the …

4-year-old toddler girl drowned on the island of Thassos

August 29, 2019 Very Mix Comments Off on 4-year-old toddler girl drowned on the island of Thassos

A 4-year-old toddler drowned in a beach of the island of Thassos in Northern Greece on Wednesday. The little girl was reportedly playing with an inflatable children boat when a wave filled it with water. The girl drank a lot of water and she was unconscious but still alive when …

4.5-year-old boy from UK drowned in hotel pool on Kos (UPD)

June 16, 2019 Social 12

A tragic incident with a child from UK occurred in a hotel on the island of Kos on Saturday morning. A 4.5-year-old boy was found drowned in the swimming pool of the hotel. The boy, who was on holiday with his parents on the island, was drowned in the pool …

Toddlers, aged 3.5 and 4.5, found dead in cesspool, Central Greece

February 18, 2019 Social Comments Off on Toddlers, aged 3.5 and 4.5, found dead in cesspool, Central Greece

Two toddlers, aged 3.5 and 4.5, were found dead in a water hole that it seems to have been either a cesspool or an irrigation channel. The tragedy took place in a Roma settlement in the town of Aliartos, Central Greece. According to preliminary information, the children were drowned either …

Memorial for drowned refugees completely destroyed on Lesvos UPD

September 3, 2018 Politics, Refugees 2

Unknown perpetrators on the island of Lesvos have completely destroyed the memorial dedicated to the refugees who have lost their lives in the Aegean Sea. They have even removed the base of the memorial made of concrete. picture on Sept 3 2018 Locals have reported that they saw plastic parts …

Europeans are no longer shocked by pictures of drowned children

August 6, 2018 Refugees Comments Off on Europeans are no longer shocked by pictures of drowned children

Europeans are no longer shocked by pictures of drowned migrants and refugees children.Their pictures no longer make it to headlines. The urgency Europe felt following the death of 3-year-old refugee boy Kurdi washed ashore a Turkish shore in 2015 appears to have dissipated. Just look at the direction in which …

Toddler drowns in hotel swimming pool where mother works as cleaner

April 16, 2018 Social Comments Off on Toddler drowns in hotel swimming pool where mother works as cleaner

A four-year-old girl was drowned in the swimming of a hotel facility where her mother was working as part of the housekeeping and cleaning staff. The mother would take the little girl to work as she had nowhere to live it. The tragedy occurred on Monday in Migli Vigla on …

Parents drowned in Crete as they try to rescue their children swimming in rough sea

August 16, 2017 Very Mix Comments Off on Parents drowned in Crete as they try to rescue their children swimming in rough sea

A tragedy occurred in Rethymnon in the north of the island of Crete. A father and a mother were drowned when they attempted to pull two of their four children out of the rough sea. The tragedy occurred on Tuesday evening at the beach of Geropotamos. It was short after …

Corfu: Local authorities let body of drowned woman floating in the sea for hours

August 11, 2017 Very Mix 1

An unbelievably tragicomic incident although it is in fact just tragic. A woman was drowned in Glyfada area on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea. Neither the Port authorities nor the police not even the ambulance appeared at the scene and let the corpse floating in the sea …

Bishop Prokopios, 78, found drowned in the sea area of Thasos

July 30, 2017 Very Mix Comments Off on Bishop Prokopios, 78, found drowned in the sea area of Thasos

Bishop Prokopios, the Metropolitan of the Metropolis of Filippoi, Neapolis and Thasos, was drowned in the sea off the island of Thasos on Saturday. The body of 78-year-old Bishop Prokopios was found floating in the sea area Kallirachi in the island of Thasos in the northern Aegean Sea. His body …

At least 16 dead when boat with refugees capsizes in the Aegean Sea

April 24, 2017 Refugees Comments Off on At least 16 dead when boat with refugees capsizes in the Aegean Sea

At least seven people have drowned when a boat carrying refugees capsized in the Aegean Sea on Monday morning. Two women have been rescued, one of them is in advanced pregnancy. Unconfirmed reports speak of another four bodies to have been washed out on the Turkish coast. A Search and …

Greece floods: Loyal Dog would not abandon drowned owner (video)

September 8, 2016 animals Comments Off on Greece floods: Loyal Dog would not abandon drowned owner (video)

The bond between a human and his dog… Hardly had the heavy rainfall started to fall in the area of Sparti on Wednesday and a 77-year-old man left the secure shelter of his home to go untie his dog. After the dog was untied and both were heading home, the …

Two children, two adults drowned trying to reach Lesvos

July 13, 2016 Very Mix Comments Off on Two children, two adults drowned trying to reach Lesvos

A girl, estimated between 4 and 6 years old, another child, a man and a woman were pulled dead from the sea area east off the island of Lesvos after a boat carrying refugees capsized. The plastic dingy had left the Turkish coast with eleven refugees on board. The shipwreck …

Rescuer cradles drowned migrant baby. Shocking, right?

May 30, 2016 Refugees, Very Mix 9

Hey! Don’t! Don’t look away! Right. The baby is not sleeping. The little one, probably less than a year old, half dressed in baby clothes, was pulled from the sea by the team of a German humanitarian organization operating a rescue boat between Libya and Italy on Friday. Rescuer Martin …

Two refugee baby girls drowned on first day of EU-Turkey deal

March 20, 2016 Politics Comments Off on Two refugee baby girls drowned on first day of EU-Turkey deal

Deal? What deal? Turkey keeps sending boats loaded with refugees to Greece, as apparently Turkish Authorities do little to prohibit and “stem the refugees flow” as it is nicely said on the deal paper. Two babies, two girls, one and two years old, were drowned on Sunday morning off the …

2013: EU Commission warns Greece refugees push-backs illegal – 2016: Belgium begs Greece to push back refugees & let them drown

January 28, 2016 Refugees, Very Mix 8

It was back in November 2013 when the European Commission warned Greece and Bulgaria to stop turning down Syrian refugees at their land/river borders with Turkey, after the UN issued a similar call just a few days before. Two and a half years later, in January 2016, it is Belgium, …

UPD “It’s Kids drowning in the Aegean, stupid!” – 42 Migrants dead in two boat incidents, among them 17 children

January 22, 2016 Refugees, Very Mix 4

At least, 21 people have died in two separate boat wreckage that occurred during the night in the Aegean Sea. According to the Greek Coast Guard, a wooden boat carrying 48 people from Turkey to Greece sank off the island of Farmakonisi. The cost guard rescued a little girl, forty …

6 Children drowned off Samos – Tsipras to visit Turkey to discuss Refugee Crisis

November 2, 2015 Refugees, Very Mix Comments Off on 6 Children drowned off Samos – Tsipras to visit Turkey to discuss Refugee Crisis

Sunday morning, 6:30 am: a plastic dingy struggles against the waves while the wind is blowing with intensity of 7 Beaufort. 50 people on board are in panic. Twenty meters away from the shore of Galazio on the island of Samos, the boat capsizes. Men, women and children fall into …

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