希腊莱斯沃斯与萨摩斯附近两起移民船倾覆共12人溺亡 含一名婴儿
据路透社 10 月 19 日报道，希腊当局表示，12 名移民周一（10 月 19 日）在希腊东北部爱琴海的莱斯沃斯岛与萨摩斯岛附近发生的两起事件中溺亡，两艘载有移民的船只在海岸警卫队追赶过程中倾覆。
萨摩斯一线：一艘从土耳其载运移民的快艇在萨摩斯以北约 4 海里处突然转向并倾覆，5 名男子与 1 名女子死亡，14 名男子生还，搜救行动仍在进行；当局逮捕了生还者中一名伊朗籍男子，指其涉嫌从事移民偷运。
较早发生的莱斯沃斯一线：一艘移民船在莱斯沃斯阿格里利亚（Agrilia）附近海域与一艘希腊海岸警卫队船只相撞后倾覆，4 名男子、1 名女子与一名婴儿死亡，8 名生还者被送往医院；当局逮捕了 8 名生还者中一名 37 岁土耳其籍男子，指其为涉嫌的偷运者与该船驾驶者。
希腊政府誓言对移民偷运者「零容忍」，并将死亡归咎于偷运者。就莱斯沃斯事件，海运部长瓦西利斯·基基利亚斯（Vassilis Kikilias）表示，迄今证据显示该快艇以船头撞上海岸警卫队船只的左侧，确切事发经过仍在调查；他在 X 上写道：「我们的立场没有商量余地：对偷运者零容忍。」
路透社指出，希腊多年来一直是来自中东、非洲与亚洲的移民与难民进入欧洲的热门门户，在 2015—2016 年欧洲移民危机中处于前线，当时近 100 万人主要从土耳其登上希腊岛屿。希腊此后收紧了立场；人权组织指控希腊在海陆边境强行遣返移民与寻求庇护者，希腊否认这一指控，称其海岸警卫队行事充分尊重人的生命与权利。
Twelve Migrants, Including an Infant, Drown as Boats Capsize off Greek Islands of Lesbos and Samos
Twelve migrants drowned in two separate incidents off the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos in the northeastern Aegean Sea on Monday, October 19, after their boats capsized as the coast guard chased them, authorities said, according to Reuters.
Off Samos, five men and one woman died after a speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey made a sudden manoeuvre and overturned roughly four nautical miles north of Samos, the Greek coast guard said. Fourteen men survived and a search-and-rescue operation was under way. Authorities arrested one of the survivors, an Iranian national, on suspicion of migrant smuggling.
Earlier, off Lesbos, four men, one woman and an infant died when their boat collided with a Greek coast guard vessel and overturned off the area of Agrilia in Lesbos. Eight survivors were taken to hospital. Authorities arrested a 37-year-old Turkish national who was among the eight survivors and identified him as the suspected smuggler and operator of the boat.
The government vowed "zero tolerance" towards migrant smugglers, whom it blamed for the deaths. On the incident off Lesbos, Greece's shipping minister Vassilis Kikilias said evidence so far indicated the speedboat struck the left side of a coast guard vessel with its bow, adding that the exact circumstances were under investigation. "Our position is non-negotiable: zero tolerance for smugglers," he said in a post on X.
Greece, for years a favoured gateway to Europe for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, was at the front line of Europe's migration crisis in 2015-2016, when nearly 1 million people landed on its islands, mainly from Turkey. It has since toughened its stance and has been accused by human rights groups of forcibly returning migrants and asylum-seekers on its sea and land borders, a practice it denies, saying its coast guard acts with full respect for human lives and rights.
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图片来源：图：希腊海岸警卫队近海巡逻艇 Arkoi 号（资料图，非事发船只）。（Loucozade／CC BY-SA 4.0，Wikimedia Commons）
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