{"id":9079,"date":"2026-04-19T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2026-04-19T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:25:33","slug":"22-migrants-die-off-greek-coast-after-six-days-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/04\/19\/22-migrants-die-off-greek-coast-after-six-days-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"22 migrants die off Greek coast after six days at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greece\u2019s coast guard rescued 26 migrants off the island of Crete after they spent six days at sea in a rubber boat, and survivors said 22 others died during the journey. Survivors told authorities that the dead were thrown overboard on a smuggler\u2019s orders, and two people were taken to hospital. The boat reportedly departed from Tobruk, eastern Libya, on March 21, but drifted without food or water and faced bad weather. Greek authorities arrested two South Sudanese men suspected of smuggling and are investigating them for illegal entry and negligent homicide, while the article notes migrant deaths en route to the EU have risen sharply early in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: March 28, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260328-22-die-off-coast-of-greece-after-six-days-at-sea-on-migrant-rubber-boat\">france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece\u2019s coast guard rescued 26 migrants off the island of Crete after they spent six days at sea in a rubber boat, and survivors said 22 others died during the journey. Survivors told authorities that the dead were thrown overboard on a smuggler\u2019s orders, and two people were taken to hospital. The boat reportedly departed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9283,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9079\/revisions\/9283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}