ATHENS: Greece Customs rescued 70 migrants from Turkish border. According to the Customs sources,” migrants were trapped on a berm at the Greece Turkish border, after they crossed the river that divide Greece and Turkey. They were trapped in the flood due to the heavy rainfall”.
When a member of the group called Greek emergency services, border police rushed to the spot and used inflatable dinghies to reach the berm and rescue them. Greek authorities believe they had been abandoned by the smuggler who helped them cross the border.After the successful rescue mission, the 70 illegal migrants were transferred to a nearby Greek village.
Every year, tens of thousands of refugees, including many from war-torn Syria and Libya, enter Europe illegally, after paying high prices to organized smuggling gangs to ferry them across the Mediterranean from northern Africa or Turkey to Italy and Greece.
