Thirty two migrants that were on board a sinking dinghy were rescued by a Coast Guard patrol vessel northeast of Lesvos island. Another patrol vessel spotted southeast of Lesvos another boat with 28 undocumented migrants.
All the arrested migrants were transferred to Mytilene.
In a separate incident, two traffickers and 52 undocumented migrants that were on a yacht off Mandraki marina, Rhodes island were arrested early Thursday by the island’s port authorities. The two traffickers claimed they were Turkish nationals. One of them managed to escape and fell in the waters but he was later located and arrested.