At least 78 people drown as refugee boat sinks off Greece
by Helena Smith in Athens from World news | The Guardian on (#6C6GD)
Hundreds more feared missing from overcrowded fishing vessel that reportedly sailed from Libya for Italy
At least 78 people have died and hundreds more are feared missing in the deadliest refugee shipwreck off Greece this year.
The victims, nearly all of them men from Afghanistan and Pakistan, drowned when the large trawler they were travelling in capsized off the southern Peloponnese.
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