The Greece Coast Guard announced that two women found the bodies on Monday and another 39 migrants on the small island of Pharmaconisi in the Aegean Sea, and that the investigation was initiated to determine what exactly happened.
They stated that the circumstances of death were not clear.
According to the Greece, according to the officials of the Coast Guard, earlier the day were informed that the migrants reached the island, located only 9.7 km from the Turkish coast, and added that the search for possible shipwreck survivors still lasts, Reuters reports.
Rescued migrants were transferred to the nearby island of Leros.
Greece, located on the southeastern corner of the European Union, has long represented a favorite entrance point in Europe for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, from Africa and Asia.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
