41 migrants found off Vravrona, Attica
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Forty-one migrants, who disembarked from a yacht off the coast of Vravrona in eastern Attica, were found by the coast guard on Friday morning.
Coast guard officials said 33 men, 4 woman and 4 minors were on board the vessel.
The yacht was subsequently apprehended and immobilised near Kea, after a pursuit by 6 patrol boats and a helicopter.
Two suspected traffickers, Egyptian nationals aged 47 and 20, were arrested, while the yacht has been detained at the port of Kea.
