{"id":24276,"date":"2026-10-19T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/at-least-12-refugees-die-in-separate-aegean-sea-boat-disasters\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:00:21","slug":"at-least-12-refugees-die-in-separate-aegean-sea-boat-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/at-least-12-refugees-die-in-separate-aegean-sea-boat-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 12 Refugees Die in Separate Aegean Sea Boat Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coast guard authorities said on Monday that two separate incidents in the Aegean Sea had left at least 12 refugees dead.<\/p>\n<p>Near the island of Lesbos, a speedboat carrying refugees collided with a police vessel, killing six people on board. Among the victims were a child and four women.<\/p>\n<p>Also near the island of Samos, a small boat carrying five men and one woman sank, and their bodies have been recovered. Fourteen other passengers were rescued, one of whom was identified as an Iranian smuggler.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the victims have not yet been officially announced, but the Aegean Sea is known as one of the most dangerous routes for refugees travelling from Turkey to Europe, and has repeatedly led to the deaths and disappearances of migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, a boat sank near the island of Gavdos, off Crete, in an incident that left one person dead and 25 missing. These incidents are another warning about the desperate situation facing refugees on dangerous sea routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two separate boat disasters in the Aegean Sea killed at least 12 refugees, including a child and four women, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}