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The Greek coast guard brought survivors of a large shipwreck to the island of Lesbos on Wednesday after a boat carrying migrants and refugees capsized at sea.
The coast guard said 242 people had been rescued.
The coast guard said it remained unclear how many people were on the wooden boat when it capsized and coast guard boats, a helicopter and vessels from the European border agency Frontex searched through the night in stormy seas for more survivors.
Island medics and local volunteers worked hard to save those picked up by Spanish lifeguards and local fishermen, but many of those on board the sunken vessel were feared drowned.
Fishing boats and coast guard vessels ferried survivors to the port village Molyvos on Lesbos, a few miles (kilometres) away from the Turkish mainland.
In makeshift shelters, volunteers and doctors offered assistance.
Many women suffered from shock or hypothermia and received first aid in a chapel at the port.
The accident raised the total death toll in the eastern Aegean Sea Wednesday to 11, as thousands of people continued to head to the Greek islands in frail boats from Turkey despite worsening weather conditions as winter set in.
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