Greece

According to local news portal ''Xanthi Times'', eleven people, all of which were migrants, were burned alive on Saturday morning after the bus that was transferring them to Greece's city of Thessaloniki crashed into a truck, near the city of...

Turkish rescue teams discovered the bodies of five migrants near the banks of river Evros, where they tried to cross the border into Greece. According to local news site e-evros.gr, they were part of a group of 11 who attempted to...

Four of the 19 migrants located on Wednesday in a dinghy 15 miles east of the island of Thassos are dead, the doctor who examined them at the port of Kavala said. The search and rescue operation started on Tuesday...

Five immigrants were killed when the truck they were travelling in overturned in western Greece, police said Saturday. The truck carrying 48 Afghan nationals was reportedly stolen in Athens before the crash in the area of Mikita in Aitoloakarnania. The driver...

Seven people were killed and five were seriously injured late on Tuesday night when a car hit a guardrail on Egnatia Highway in Alexandroupolis, northeastern Greece. The accident took place at the Ardanio intersection in Alexandroupolis. The car was moving...

Greek police said on Thursday that three people were killed and at least 12 were injured when a vehicle crammed with migrants crashed into an oncoming car and then tumbled off a cliff. The collision took place late Wednesday near...

Yet another tragedy involving and migrants took place in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday morning, this time off the coast of the islets of Oinousses in Greece. Five children and two adults were drowned in the Aegean Sea when the...

The Hellenic Coast Guard rescued 28 migrants coming from Turkey after their Zodiac-type rubber boat capsized near Farmakonisi. The crew of the patrol vessel rescued the migrants  under the supervision of the Central Hellenic Coast Guard Research and Rescue Coordination...

The worsening humanitarian situation on Greece's land border with Turkey, is drawing international media attention. As the local authorities also face the challenge of identifying the bodies they recover from the frontier river, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has already...

At least nine dead and 340 rescued migrants is the latest count of a joint rescue operation between the Greek and Egyptian coast guards after a boat sank 70 nautical miles south of Crete, with initial reports talking about...

A Hellenic Coast Guard boat that was on its way to conduct a rescue operation in the East Aegean seas was hit by a boat that was carrying migrants and refugees off the shore of the Greek island of Lesvos...

Turkish authorities collected around 200 migrants and refugees traveling aboard a wooden 20-meter boat that capsized. At least 22 people, including 4 children and 11 women lost their lives off the south-western coast of Turkey in the wreck. The boat...

The bodies of two undocumented migrants were found in the sea region of Skala, Lesvos island. The migrants were on board a boat that capsized on Monday morning. Eight persons have been rescued and according to their testimonies a total...

Migrants are arriving at the port of Piraeus, Greece, on a nearly daily basis. On Thursday morning, another 200 Syrian migrants and refugees traveled from Greek islands' detention centers to Piraeus and later moved to Omonoia Square in downtown Athens. Most of them...

The Mediterranean has once again been turned into an underwater grave for at least three migrants. According to local media reports, a boat arrived on the Greek island of Rhodes earlier this morning, carrying more than 200 illegal migrants. The boat hit...