Greece boat crisis: 79 dead and hundreds missing

By Conrad Hoyt

Published June 15, 2023 4:15am ET

Greece boat crisis: 79 dead and hundreds missing — This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. A fishing boat carrying migrants trying to reach Europe capsized and sank off Greece on Wednesday, authorities said, leaving at least 79 dead and many more missing in one of the worst disasters of its kind this year. | (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP)

At least 79 people have died, and hundreds more are feared dead, after a boat capsized off the Greek coast on Wednesday in what could become the country’s biggest migrant tragedy ever.

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