The accident of the overturning of the boat of asylum seekers on the Greek island left 7 dead

The Greek Coast Guard says it has completed a rescue operation for 90 people whose boat sank in an area on the southern island of Antikythera, IRNA reported, quoting Reuters.

The Greek Coast Guard confirmed that the bodies of seven people had been taken from the water and that search operations were continuing.

Greece is one of the main routes to the EU for asylum seekers and refugees from Africa, the Middle East and other countries, although this trend has been declining since 2015 and 2016, when more than one million people migrated to other EU member states. They passed.

The sinking was the second shipwreck in the Aegean this week. In another overnight accident between Tuesday and Wednesday, a boat carrying 50 people, who were also asylum seekers, sank near the Greek island of Folegandros, leaving dozens of people missing.

Humanitarian organizations, meanwhile, have issued a statement accusing Greek officials of leaving many asylum seekers in camps without access to humanitarian supplies, including food aid.

Twenty-six humanitarian NGOs, including the Greek Refugee Council and the International Rescue Committee, said in a statement referring to the distribution of poor quality and often uncooked food among asylum seekers: According to estimates, 60% of asylum seekers living in camps , Are deprived of food aid.