THESSALONIKI – Greek authorities say 18 people were hospitalized after the latest in a string of often fatal road accidents involving vehicles smuggling migrants through northern Greece.
Police say a van driven by a suspected migrant smuggler and crammed with another 46 people veered off a road and crashed near the northeastern town of Didymoteicho overnight Wednesday.
Police say the migrants, who included several children, were Syrians, Iraqis and Palestinians.
Didymoteicho is very close to the border with Turkey, from which thousands of migrants enter Greece illegally every year hoping to move on to Europe’s prosperous heartland.
Most pay criminal gangs to smuggle them into Greece and to drive them from the border to Thessaloniki, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) further west.
ATHENS – The 13th Annual Capital Link Sustainability Forum, titled "Financing & Investments Spearheading Sustainable Growth," will be held on Thursday, June 8, as an in-person event at the Divani Caravel Athens Hotel, under the auspices of the Attica Region.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
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