New accounts clash with official version of migrant disaster off Greece

Only 104 survivors have been found so far, and 80 bodies recovered, but many accounts say up to 750 people were on board.

This undated handout image provided by Greece’s coast guard on Wednesday, June14, 2023, shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. Picture: Hellenic Coast Guard via AP

The number of confirmed victims from one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean has risen to 81 after three more bodies were found off southern Greece, as more survivors claimed the battered trawler had been under tow by another vessel before it sank with hundreds aboard.

The new accounts raised further questions about the Greek coastguard’s response from the moment it located the ship until it went down.