Twenty-six
migrants have drowned off the Greek island of Samos near Turkey after
their boat capsized.
Ten of those
were children, and it was the second migrant boat to sink in as many
days. Seven people drowned off the island of Kos on Wednesday.
Another six
bodies were discovered by the Italian navy in a sinking dinghy off
the Libyan coast.
The deaths
come as the Netherlands proposed sending migrants reaching Greece
back to Turkey.
The
nationalities of the latest migrant victims are not yet known. Most
of those who risk their lives, packed aboard rickety boats, are
refugees from the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The EU's
Frontex border agency is helping the search for survivors off Samos.
The bodies
found by the Italian navy are thought to be the first deaths this
year recorded along the migrant route from North Africa to Italy.
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