Child Dead, 13 Lost After Migrant Boat Sinks Traveling to Greece

A girl—who may be no older than five years old—died on Saturday and 13 other migrant are lost after their boat sank in choppy waters off the Greek island of Lesbos, officials said.

A second boat of 40 people traveling from Turkey reached the island after paddling six miles through out the night after their engine failed.

Some, like Mohammed Rezawhoe fled from Afghanistan, thought they would die.

He said neither the Greek and Turkish coastguard had assisted the group of men, women and children. "At that moment, we, all of us, thought that we are useless, we are not human."

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