Four migrants died Monday when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos, while 18 people were rescued, the coastguard said.<\/p>\n
A patrol picked up 22 people in the Aegean but four of them were dead, a brief statement said.<\/p>\n
The survivors were transferred to Mytilene, the main city on Lesbos, along the main passage route for migrants coming in from Turkey.<\/p>\n
No details were given about the nationalities or the condition of those rescued.<\/p>\n
In June, an overcrowded fishing trawler carrying up to 750 people who had been picked up in Libya sank off Greece.<\/p>\n
Around 100 of them were saved, but it is thought that some 600 drowned, according to Greek figures.<\/p>\n
Thousands of migrants, mostly from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, have entered Greece in recent years from the sea and land borders with Turkey.<\/p>\n
Following a strict migration policy, Greece has stepped up patrols in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey with the help of the European Border Surveillance Agency, Frontex.<\/p>\n
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