(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) Valletta Rabi'I 23 1437 January 03 2016 SPA -- A 2-year-old Syrian boy became the first sea migrant
casualty of 2016 while 10 other asylum seekers were injured during
their sea crossing the NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station said according to dpa.
Khalid a Syrian boy who was travelling to Greece with his mother
died when the rubber raft he was on was slammed against the rocks on
the Aegean island of Nera.
The boy's body was pulled out of the water by fishermen while
the remaining 35 people on board the dinghy made it out alive some
just barely.
MOAS a Malta-based migrant rescue NGO which has recently started
operating off Greece said the migrants endured five hours in heavy
seas only to end up shipwrecked upon jagged rocks.
Some 3770 migrants died in 2015 making it the deadliest year on
record for migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean.
--SPA
15:08 LOCAL TIME 12:08 GMT
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