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Seven people, five children and two adults, drowned early Friday morning, after a flimsy inflatable craft carrying 18 people overturned in a sea region north of the Oinouses islets, the latest fatal incident involving undocumented migrants being smuggled from Turkey to a handful of Greek isles.

The confirmed deaths from the latest incident involving migrants in the Aegean has risen to 35, Greek authorities reported on Sunday.