Migrant drownings 'at four times the rate of last year'

The International Organisation for Migration says migrant drowning deaths are running at four times the rate of 2015, when many thousands daily sought to enter the European Union via Turkey by reaching one of more than a dozen offshore Greek islands, particularly nearby Lesbos.

It comes as at least 33 people, including five children, drowned in the Aegean Sea today after their Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish coast.