Relatives of drowning victims from the latest sinking of a migrant smuggling vessel, which occurred a short distance from the isle of Farmakonissi over the weekend, will be transported to a Rhodes morgue on Thursday to identify the bodies.

The decrepit sailboat’s sinking cost the lives of 34 people, including 15 children.

Five Syrians and two Pakistanis were charged with people smuggling. The craft, as hundreds of other have done before, disembarked from the opposite Turkish coast under the … watchful eye of authorities in the EU candidate state.