Monday, October 26, 2015
Fishermen rescued 41 shipwrecked migrants on Lesvos
A total of 41 people, 28 men, seven women, of which two in pregnancy and six children, all shipwrecked migrants from Afghanistan, rescued late yesterday afternoon the fishermen of the fishing vessel "Taxiarchis".
The castaways were identified by the Coast Guard on the uninhabited island of Virgin Mary, one of the islets Toukmakia east coast of Lesvos Mandamados. Because in blowing winds seven Beaufort and it was impossible to approach the Mikronisi other boats, but also because the castaways to this at risk due to low temperatures when it gets dark, the captain of the wooden fishing vessel "Taxiarchis" Stratis Kassos sailing at that time in listening to the call for help of the Port Authority decided to approach and begin the rescue procedure. With a wooden boat of the fishing vessel that dropped into the water, the crew of the boat began to carry little castaways in fishing. First of children and women and then men. "Three three or four four to upload all the boat. God helped us and we did it. The boat was in danger and the boat literally broke, "says skipper talking at the Athens and Macedonian News Agency at the port of Mytilene, where it arrived on the boat last night to disembark the survivors. In addition to the fishing captain aboard his brother Stavros, his son Claus and three Egyptians anglers the Musa, the Tachnti and Achent.
Note here that it is not the first time that certain fishermen on the boat have been rescued shipwrecked migrants and refugees. All survivors in good health after the first aid was provided in the port of Mytilene by volunteers and recorded, were transferred to camps.
Fishermen rescued 41 shipwrecked migrants on Lesvos
A total of 41 people, 28 men, seven women, of which two in pregnancy and six children, all shipwrecked migrants from Afghanistan, rescued late yesterday afternoon the fishermen of the fishing vessel "Taxiarchis".
The castaways were identified by the Coast Guard on the uninhabited island of Virgin Mary, one of the islets Toukmakia east coast of Lesvos Mandamados. Because in blowing winds seven Beaufort and it was impossible to approach the Mikronisi other boats, but also because the castaways to this at risk due to low temperatures when it gets dark, the captain of the wooden fishing vessel "Taxiarchis" Stratis Kassos sailing at that time in listening to the call for help of the Port Authority decided to approach and begin the rescue procedure. With a wooden boat of the fishing vessel that dropped into the water, the crew of the boat began to carry little castaways in fishing. First of children and women and then men. "Three three or four four to upload all the boat. God helped us and we did it. The boat was in danger and the boat literally broke, "says skipper talking at the Athens and Macedonian News Agency at the port of Mytilene, where it arrived on the boat last night to disembark the survivors. In addition to the fishing captain aboard his brother Stavros, his son Claus and three Egyptians anglers the Musa, the Tachnti and Achent.
Note here that it is not the first time that certain fishermen on the boat have been rescued shipwrecked migrants and refugees. All survivors in good health after the first aid was provided in the port of Mytilene by volunteers and recorded, were transferred to camps.
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