The bodies of three minors have been recovered on the northeast shores of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, Greek authorities announced on Saturday, a shocking development believed to be linked to a resurgent flow of third country nationals being ferried over by migrant smugglers from Turkey.
The bodies of three minors have been recovered on the northeast shores of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, Greek authorities announced on Saturday, a shocking development believed to be linked to a resurgent flow of third country nationals being ferried over by migrant smugglers from Turkey.
Authorities on the island were quoted, by a local news source, lesvosnews.gr, as saying no reports of missing children are on file.
The first of two bodies, belonging to a girl roughly 12 to 13 years old, was discovered on Thursday on a beach at the Mantamado site. On Friday the body of a boy, roughly the same age, was discovered nearby. No information was given on when the third body was discovered.