{"id":58279,"date":"2022-11-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/11\/06\/greece-23-dead-after-boat-carrying-asylum-seekers-sinks-in-aegean-sea\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T00:00:00","slug":"greece-23-dead-after-boat-carrying-asylum-seekers-sinks-in-aegean-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/11\/06\/greece-23-dead-after-boat-carrying-asylum-seekers-sinks-in-aegean-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece: 23 dead after boat carrying asylum seekers sinks in Aegean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS (AA): At least 23 bodies were pulled out after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank near islands of Evia in the Aegean Sea, Greek officials said Friday. Many are still missing.<\/p>\n<p>Five children were among the dead from Tuesday&rsquo;s boat wreck, according to the Greek coast guard.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve people, including a 16-year-old boy, have been rescued. Two of those rescued are alleged smugglers and they were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The asylum seekers include those from Egypt, Afghanistan and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors said there were 68 people on the boat. A distress call was sent to the European emergency number 112 by the asylum seekers after the boat sank, according to the coast guard.<\/p>\n<p>A search and rescue operation is underway for those still missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS (AA): At least 23 bodies were pulled out after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank near islands of Evia in the Aegean Sea, Greek officials said Friday. Many are still missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}