Survivors from an overcrowded fishing boat that capsized and sank on Wednesday off the Greek coast have told doctors and police that women and children were travelling in the hold of the vessel. Seventy-eight people have been confirmed dead in one of the worst disasters in the Mediterranean in recent years, but there are fears the number of victims could run into the hundreds. On Thursday night it was announced that Greek authorities had arrested nine suspected people-smugglers believed to have piloted the vessel before it sank off the southern Peloponnese
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