Eight people were saved, seven drowned while another two are missing, after a vessel carrying illegal immigrants sunk last night northeast of cape Korakas-Mytilene island.

A magistrate and lead investigator of the Farmakonisi disaster, have ruled that the screening of a news investigative show could jeopardize the judicial investigation.

Police have cracked a human trafficking ring based in Thessaloniki.
The activities of the multi-member gang were unraveled when police found a van in which 25 Syrian citizens were found stacked.