Rescues underway for migrants on board sailboats off the coast of western Greece and in Cyclades

Two rescue operations are underway for migrants crammed on sailboats, one far off the coast of a western Greek island and the other off the coast of a Cycladic island. The Greek coast guard says a group of 76 people were rescued from a sailboat in distress 64 nautical miles southwest of the Ionian Sea island of Zakynthos in western Greece on Wednesday. All were taken on board a passing Egyptian-flagged cargo ship. In the second incident, a rescue operation was launched for a “sizeable number” of people on sailboat near the northwestern coast of Kythnos island, southeast of the Greek capital. There are no reports of missing people in either incident.