Nine men have been arrested and detained on allegations of people smuggling.
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s coast guard launched its final day of searching an area of the Mediterranean Sea where a and hundreds of passengers were missing and feared dead Friday.
The fishing boat carrying the migrants was traveling from Libya to Italy. Greek authorities and European Union border protection agency Frontex tracked the boat before it capsized and sank early Wednesday. Most of the survivors were being moved Friday from a storage hangar at the southern port of Kalamata, where Nine people — all men from Egypt, ranging in age from 20 to 40 — were arrested and detained on allegations of people smuggling and participating in a criminal enterprise. Twenty-seven of the survivors remain hospitalized, health officials said.
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