(6 Oct 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Kythira – 6 October 2022
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1. Various of bodies, life vests and debris from shipwreck in sea
2. Wide remnants of sailboat used by migrants seen getting tossed by waves
3. Back of Martha Sthathaki, local resident looking down from cliff at bodies and debris
4. Close-up of bodies and debris
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Martha Sthathaki, local resident:
"Last night we heard voices crying and asking for help, so there was a group of volunteers that we ran to the place, and we saw all these people that they were in a very steep beach, and it was impossible for them to move. So the people here they just dropped them ropes in order to help them to climb up the hill."
6. Pan of sea from bodies and debris to wreckage of sailboat
7. Various of wreckage and debris
8. Wide of bodies and debris
9. People looking and pointing at sea
10. Close-up of debris and bodies
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11. Wide of sea
12. Various of stranded boat in sea
13. Waves crashing onto shore
14. Wide of partially sunken boat at sea
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Martha Sthathaki, local resident:
"So just before five or six days that we had another incident and also another one last month. It seems that, this summer it seems that the route of these people comes through Kythira. I don't know why, because the sea here is very hard and it's a very dangerous route. I don't know who chose this route and to put these people in such a danger."
16. Waves
17. Various of bodies and debris
STORYLINE:
Bodies floated amid splintered wreckage in the water off a Greek island Thursday as the death toll from the sinking of two migrant boats rose to 21, with many still missing.
The boats went down hundreds of miles apart, in one case prompting a dramatic overnight rescue effort, as residents and firefighters pulled shipwrecked migrants to safety up steep cliffs.
The deadly incidents stoked tension between neighbours Greece and Turkey, which are locked in a heated dispute over migration and maritime boundaries.
One of the rescue efforts was launched off the island of Kythira, where a sailboat struck rocks and sank.
The bodies of at least four migrants were seen amid floating debris from the sailboat.
The deaths would be officially recorded when the bodies were recovered, officials said.
They added that 80 people, from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, had been rescued while a search continues for as many as 11 still believed to be missing.
With winds in the area reaching 70 kph (45 mph) overnight on Kythira, survivors clinging to ropes were pulled to safety up steep cliffs as others were buffeted by waves as they waited their turn on tiny areas of rock at the bottom.
Kythira is some 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Turkey and on a route often used by smugglers to bypass Greece and head directly to Italy.
And on the eastern island of Lesbos the coast guard said 16 bodies of young African women and one young man were recovered there after a dinghy carrying about 40 people sank.
Ten women were rescued, while 13 other migrants were believed to be missing, coast guard officials said.
A volatile dispute is taking place between Greece and Turkey over the safety of migrants at sea, with Athens accusing its neighbour of failing to stop smugglers active on its shoreline and even using migrants to apply political pressure on the European Union.
AP Video by Srdjan Nedeljkovic
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