At least five people, including three children, were on Wednesday killed and dozens are missing after four migrant boat wreck on Wednesday between Turkey and Greece, Greek Coast Guard reported.
One of the boats, wood, sank near the Greek island of Lesbos with a hundred migrants on board, one of whom was found dead at the end of the afternoon.
An AFP photographer at the scene counted on a beach in Molyvos six children who were rescued inanimate, while fishing boats landed survivors.
By late afternoon, the port police counted 35 survivors, and continued the search using a helicopter and several boats.
Victim of a previous wreck in the same area, a seven-year was received inanimate died in a clinic in Molyvos, where he was taken by ambulance. A girl who arrived on the same boat could be revived, but his condition remains "critical".
Two children and a man drowned further south, off the coast of the island of Samos, when their boat with fifty people on board capsized shortly after noon.
The Coast Guard continue to work in waters of the island of Samos and Agathonissi hoping to find three children, two boys aged one and five years, and a girl of one year and-a sexagenarian three adults and two men reported missing by his relatives after the rescue of two vessels from Turkey.
A five year old girl died in the morning at the hospital in Samos after being taken there by family inanimate, hosted temporarily at a registration center of immigrants.
These latest deaths bring to 34 the number of migrants killed in Greek waters from October 1, according to statistics from the AFP based on data supplied by the Greek harbor police.
Since the beginning of the year, 560,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Greece by sea, a total of more than 700,000 who have entered Europe through the Mediterranean, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
More than 3,200 people, mostly children, have died in these crossings, according to the IOM.