A British man has told Sky News he fears his relatives are among the hundreds who are missing after a fishing boat overloaded with migrants sank off the coast of Greece.
Aftab Khan, from Wolverhampton, travelled to Greece following the tragedy in the early hours of Wednesday morning.about 50 miles from the southern coastal town of Pylos.
Charity Alarm Phone, which received frantic calls from some of those on board, said up to 750 people may have been on the vessel at the time and a massive search operation for survivors is continuing. Mr Khan told Sky News' Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall that one of his male cousins had been found alive but he had been unable to find two others."We're just trying to find out" where relatives are.
Speaking in the port city of Kalamata, where survivors have been brought by rescuers, he added:"We don't know where the rest of them are at the moment.Greek officials said the boat got into difficulties when its engine stopped and it began veering from side to side. It then capsized and sank at around 2am on Wednesday.
Aerial pictures released by the Greek coastguard showed the 20 to 30-metre-long boat hours before it sank.Dozens of people on the upper and lower decks were seen looking up, some with arms outstretched.Witnesses said many more women and children were below in the hold.
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