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Hope dims for migrants missing after vessel sinks off Greece

The trawler may have carried as many as 750 passengers, including women and children who were likely trapped in the hold as the vessel overturned and went down early Wednesday.

By Associated Press and Pool

June 15, 2023

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Survivors of a shipwreck react outside a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Athens, on Thursday, June 15. A fishing boat crammed to the gunwales with migrants trying to reach Europe capsized and sank Wednesday June 14 off the coast of Greece, authorities said, leaving at least 79 dead and many more missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind this year.
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Survivors of a shipwreck stand outside a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Athens, Greece, Thursday, June 15.
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Kassem Abo Zeed holds up a phone displaying a photo of himself with his wife, Ezra, who is missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off southern Greece, in the southern port city of Kalamata on Thursday, June 15. Abo Zeed traveled from Hamburg, Germany to try and find his wife and her missing brother, Abdullah Aoun.
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Kassem Abo Zeed, husband of Ezra, who is missing after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off southern Greece, gestures as he speaks, in the southern port city of Kalamata, Thursday, June 15.
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Survivors of a shipwreck wash their selves outside a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Athens, Greece, Thursday, June 15.
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Survivors of a shipwreck eat outside a warehouse at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Athens, on Thursday, June 15.
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Survivors of a shipwreck sit inside a warehouse where are taking shelter at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers (150miles) southwest of Athens, on Thursday, June 15.
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A survivors of a shipwreck sits inside a warehouse where are taking shelter at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Athens, on Thursday, June 15.
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A Greek coast guard vessel is docked at the port in Kalamata town, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Athens, on Thursday, June 15.
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Protesters hold a banner which reads in Greek with blue letters "Seas of Dead", during a demonstration in front of the parliament building, following a deadly migrant shipwreck off Greece, in Athens, on Thursday, June 15.
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Protesters hold a banner during a demonstration following a deadly migrant shipwreck off Greece, in Athens, on Thursday, June 15.

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