Greece boat tragedy: Coastguard finds 3 more boedies in migrant tragedy search
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00:00 Our correspondent in Athens, Natalie Savarikas, has more.
00:05 The Coast Guard just informed me that the search and rescue is still very much underway,
00:10 although the likelihood of finding any rescued people is nil.
00:16 They're continuing though with two vessels of the Hellenic Coast Guard and Navy, including
00:22 a freighter.
00:24 And they told me that a plane will shortly also take off, all this in the effort to recover
00:30 bodies or even find any other evidence that could help the authorities with the ongoing
00:37 process now of figuring out what exactly happened in the area and throughout this ordeal.
00:43 Now what we do know as well is that 82 bodies were recovered over the past few days, extra
00:50 bodies, raising the total to 81.
00:54 And out of the 104 men that have been rescued, over 70 are now being kept in northern Athens
01:02 in a special design camp for migrants, while the nine people who are arrested are still
01:08 in the Kalamata in southern Greece in the police station there.