18 migrants die in Greece boat tragedy

Eighteen migrants have died and nine are missing after their makeshift boat sank off the coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea, police said yesterday.
"Only one person was plucked out of the water and hospitalised," a ports police spokeswoman told AFP, saying 18 other bodies had been found so far -- most on a beach near the town of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.
The lone survivor rescued so far, a 20-year-old man who had been taken to hospital in Mytilene, told authorities the boat was carrying 28 people, including children.
Three port police boats resumed the search in the hope of finding more survivors.
The victims set sail from the western coast of Turkey on Thursday but ran into bad weather that sank their boat. Authorities have not yet released the victims' nationalities.