(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Some 26 migrants are feared missing after a dinghy carrying them sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, the coastguard said.
A search and rescue operation was under way and 20 other people were pulled from the water, a coastguard spokeswoman said, adding that the migrants told rescuers there were 46 people in the inflatable dinghy in total.
Their nationalities were not immediately known. The official Greek News Agency said that children are among the missing, but the coast guard did not confirm that. Rescues and sinking have become almost daily occurrences in the often choppy seas off Greece's eastern islands.
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