As weather in the Aegean Sea has taken a turn for the worse, turning wind-whipped sea corridors into deadly passages for thousands of refugees crossing from Turkey to Greece, an overcrowded boat taking on water as it approaches the Greek Island of Lesbos. The boat is carrying around 150 refugees, mostly Syrians. It apparently begins filling up with water and starts leaning in the middle of the sea.
A Greek Fisherman rushes with his small boat to the sinking refugee boat. He ties a rope to the boat and guides it to the Skala shore in Lesbos. The Spanish lifeguards jump into the water on their jet skis to meet the half-sunk boat
“Volunteer Spanish lifeguards with Proactiva Serve rescue more than 100 terrified refugees early this morning after …show more content…
Rayyan soup might be the only hot food, and sometimes the only food, that the refugees will get for a few days.
“We managed to get everyone off safely even though it was total chaos. Only one injured person was on board - a young Afghan guy who the smuggler apparently tried to kill by throwing him headfirst into the fire yesterday. He was in quite a state with full thickness burns to most of his right hand and burns to his face. Just gives you an idea of the harsh world that these people have to deal with. Refugees tell me that smugglers have actually killed quite a few of the men and rape the women as well,” says Michael-John Von Hörsten, a volunteer doctor from South Africa.
Back in Izmir Turkey, a refugee father enters a shop to buy a faulty “Yamaha” lifejacket for his young baby, while he looks nervously at the screen of his smartphone waiting for a WhatsApp call from the smuggler.
Meanwhile, Spanish lifeguards, photojournalists, aid workers, volunteers and refugees push the boat off shore to make a space for the next refugee boat which will soon come and the saga
A Greek Fisherman rushes with his small boat to the sinking refugee boat. He ties a rope to the boat and guides it to the Skala shore in Lesbos. The Spanish lifeguards jump into the water on their jet skis to meet the half-sunk boat
“Volunteer Spanish lifeguards with Proactiva Serve rescue more than 100 terrified refugees early this morning after …show more content…
Rayyan soup might be the only hot food, and sometimes the only food, that the refugees will get for a few days.
“We managed to get everyone off safely even though it was total chaos. Only one injured person was on board - a young Afghan guy who the smuggler apparently tried to kill by throwing him headfirst into the fire yesterday. He was in quite a state with full thickness burns to most of his right hand and burns to his face. Just gives you an idea of the harsh world that these people have to deal with. Refugees tell me that smugglers have actually killed quite a few of the men and rape the women as well,” says Michael-John Von Hörsten, a volunteer doctor from South Africa.
Back in Izmir Turkey, a refugee father enters a shop to buy a faulty “Yamaha” lifejacket for his young baby, while he looks nervously at the screen of his smartphone waiting for a WhatsApp call from the smuggler.
Meanwhile, Spanish lifeguards, photojournalists, aid workers, volunteers and refugees push the boat off shore to make a space for the next refugee boat which will soon come and the saga