Authorities in Lesvos, Greece announced on Tuesday that at least seven migrants have been found dead, their bodies washed up on a beach.
The victims, among them children and women were migrants who started from the Turkish coast by boat to reach Greece. Under conditions that are not known at the moment, their boat sank and they lost the battle in the icy waters of the Aegean.
Coast Guard officials estimate that the shipwreck occurred some days ago. According to public broadcaster ERT, four of the bodies were found on land and another three in the sea. The victims were not wearing life jackets.
Their bodies were discovered by passers-by who alerted the Coast Guard.
The bodies were transported by EKAB ambulances to the hospital of Mytilene, where an autopsy-necropsy will be performed by a medical examiner.