Published : 30-12-2018
A boat carrying eight illegal migrants and which set sail from Lebanon capsized on way to Cyprus.
A migrant from Syria who was rescued off Cyprus after the boat capsized told police another seven migrants had drowned.
Cypriot rescue workers said the 32-year-old was picked up at sea Thursday by a U.S.-flagged cargo vessel and airlifted to a hospital on the Mediterranean island suffering from hypothermia.
The man told police Friday that he was the lone survivor from a group of eight migrants who left Lebanon on December 21 in a boat they had purchased, Cypriot state radio said.
The migrants tried to use GPS to navigate their way to Cyprus but lost direction and ran out of fuel before their boat capsized in stormy seas on Tuesday, the radio cited a police source as saying.
Over the past months, there has been a steady flow of Syrian migrants arriving in Cyprus from Turkey and Lebanon.
According to AGPS data, 51 Palestinian refugees drowned at sea onboard Europe-bound vessels.
A boat carrying eight illegal migrants and which set sail from Lebanon capsized on way to Cyprus.
A migrant from Syria who was rescued off Cyprus after the boat capsized told police another seven migrants had drowned.
Cypriot rescue workers said the 32-year-old was picked up at sea Thursday by a U.S.-flagged cargo vessel and airlifted to a hospital on the Mediterranean island suffering from hypothermia.
The man told police Friday that he was the lone survivor from a group of eight migrants who left Lebanon on December 21 in a boat they had purchased, Cypriot state radio said.
The migrants tried to use GPS to navigate their way to Cyprus but lost direction and ran out of fuel before their boat capsized in stormy seas on Tuesday, the radio cited a police source as saying.
Over the past months, there has been a steady flow of Syrian migrants arriving in Cyprus from Turkey and Lebanon.
According to AGPS data, 51 Palestinian refugees drowned at sea onboard Europe-bound vessels.
