{"id":25139,"date":"2025-10-27T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=25139"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:04:22","slug":"at-least-four-die-after-migrant-boat-sinks-off-greek-island-of-lesbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=25139","title":{"rendered":"At least four die after migrant boat sinks off Greek island of Lesbos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Four migrants died when their boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece\u2019s coastguard said on Monday, adding seven had been rescued from the sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recovered four bodies, the rescue operation continues. We don\u2019t know if there were more people on the boat,\u201d a coastguard official said.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: At least 17 migrants drown after boat sinks off western Turkey<\/p>\n<p>This is the second fatal incident involving migrants off Lesbos, near the Turkish coast, in October.<\/p>\n<p>Greece was on the frontline of a 2015\u201316 migration crisis when more than a million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Migrant flows subsequently ebbed. But the country has toughened migration rules, following a resurgence of arrivals from Libya via the islands of Crete and Gavdos.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four migrants died when their boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece\u2019s coastguard said on Monday, adding seven had been rescued from the sea. \u201cWe recovered four bodies, the rescue operation continues. We don\u2019t know if there were more people on the boat,\u201d a coastguard official said. Read More: At least 17 migrants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}