2023 Pylos migrant boat disaster

When

14 Jun 2023

Kind

Event

Coordinates

36.91° N, 21.25° E

Description

At least 82 people die and 500 are reported missing after a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of the Peloponnese.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2023 Pylos migrant boat disaster.

Sinking in the Ionian Sea off the Greek coast

On 14 June 2023, Adriana, an Italy-bound fishing trawler smuggling migrants, sank in international waters in the part of the Mediterranean known as the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Pylos, Messenia, Greece. The boat had a capacity of 400 people, but was carrying an estimated 400 to 750 migrants, mostly from Pakistan, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, and some from Afghanistan.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bei einem Schiffsunglück vor der griechischen Insel Pylos starben schätzungsweise 300–650 Migranten bei dem Versuch, das Mittelmeer von Libyen aus zu überqueren”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “l' Andrianna coule au large de la Messénie en Grèce”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En Mesenia, Grecia, tuvo lugar otro desastre marítimo, el cual al momento se está saldando con la vida de 78 personas y más de 200 personas rescatadas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “مقتل 82 من المهاجرين غير الشرعيين على الأقل وإنقاذ 104 آخرين واعتبار مئات آخرين في عداد المفقودين بعد غرق مركب يُقِلُّهم قبالة ساحل بيلوس باليونان”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page