ATHENS — The bodies of 16 people, including at least five children, were recovered from the sea off a Greek island on Saturday after a boat smuggling migrants sank in the eastern Aegean, a spokeswoman for the Greek coast guard said.

The drownings — the first such mass casualty in several months — came almost exactly two years after Turkey and the European Union signed a deal to curb the flow of migrants trying to reach Europe via the Aegean Sea.

Although the influx has been limited drastically since that time, when daily crossings were often in the thousands, hundreds continue to reach Greek islands in smuggling vessels that are often old, flimsy and unseaworthy.

The Greek authorities were alerted to the latest episode shortly after 8 a.m., when three survivorsJamaica National Agency For Accreditation Commemorates World Accreditation Day June 9, 2020. https://t.co/0OdMm1O9ox —
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08 Feb 2019 communications

Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw (right), in dialogue with outgoing Head of Regional Office for the Caribbean, European Investment Bank, René Pérez, during a courtesy call at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices, on Friday, February 8, 2019. Among the matters discussed were to explore greater levels of cooperation for the agricultural sector and a tighter relationship with the European Union in grant funding and loans.

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