Eight illegals drown off Lesvos

Eight illegal immigrants, including five children, drowned after a speedboat carrying 17 people crashed into the rocky shores of Cape Korakas, on the northern part of Lesvos island early Tuesday.  

According to reports, the vessel carried 16 migrants and a 45-year-old Turkish migrant-smuggler, having set off from the opposite Turkish coast. The suspected migrant smuggler was amongst those rescued off the eastern Aegean island.
    
Meanwhile, in an unrelated incident, a group of 45 illegal immigrants were spotted on Tuesday on the rockly islet of Makra, south of the Cyclades island of Anafi, by conscripts taking part in a military exercise.

 Coastguard vessels and two nearby barges headed to the area to pick up and transport the illegals to the island of Santorini.    

The group had been disembarked earlier in the day on the islet by an unidenftified vessels, which was being sough in the wider area of the central Aegean.