Six children among latest refugee drownings off Greece

At least 13 refugees, six of them children, drowned as two boats making the hazardous crossing from Turkey capsized in the Aegean Sea off Greece yesterday, the coastguard said.

Ten bodies — including six children, four of them babies — were found in the vessel’s cabin while that of a girl was washed up on the island, where dozens of refugees have perished trying to reach Europe in recent days.

Two others were missing with coastguards saying 15 people were plucked from the water.