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Greece pursues survivor search after migrant boat sinking
KALAMATA: Greece on Thursday maintained a search for survivors a day after a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank in the Ionian Sea, with the number of victims feared to reach into the hundreds.The coastguard said 78 bodies had been recovered so far, amending a toll of 79 deaths given Wednesday.A spokeswoman told AFP that two patrol boats, a helicopter and six other ships in the area were searching the waters west of the Peloponnese peninsula, one of the deepest areas in the Mediterranean.Greece has declared three days of mourning over the tragedy.A Greek navy frigate bearing the bodies will dock at the western port of Kalamata later Thursday, the agency said.So far 104 pe

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