Two boats carrying scores of refugees have sunk off Greek islands within hours of each other.
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In the first incident overnight, a boat packed with up to 100 people hit rocks off the southern island of Kythira in high winds and sank. Five people were thought to have died and 80 people had been rescued.

Shortly afterwards, in the early hours of Thursday, a boat carrying about 40 people sank off the eastern island of Lesbos, the country’s coastguard said. At least 16 women and one man had died, another nine women had been rescued and the rest remained missing.

At least 17 people dead after boat capsizes off Lesbos ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/lesbos-boat-capsizes-greece-migrants-kythira.

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