希臘海岸警衛隊：14名移民試圖抵達克里特島時死亡

雅典，11月9日（路透社）——希臘海岸警衛隊週一表示，14名移民搭船試圖抵達克里特島時死亡，這是近日該地區第二起致命事件。ATHENS, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Fourteen migrants died in an attempt to reach the island of Crete by boat, Greece's coastguard said on Monday, in the second deadly incident in the area in recent days.

一艘懸掛摩洛哥旗的貨櫃船週一在距卡洛伊利梅內斯港約15海里（28公里）處發現他們的船。海岸警衛隊表示，13名移民被發現時已死亡，另有1人稍後在醫院身亡。18人生還。A Morocco-flagged container ship spotted their boat on Monday about 15 nautical miles (28 km) off the port of Kaloi Limenes. Thirteen migrants were found dead and another died later in hospital, the coastguard said. Eighteen people survived.

目前尚不清楚死亡原因。希臘當局表示，這艘船可能已在海上多日，因強風難以靠岸。It was not immediately clear what had caused the deaths. Greek authorities said the boat may have been at sea for days, struggling to reach the shore due to strong winds.

一名不願具名的地方海岸警衛隊官員說：「我們找到他們（倖存者）時，他們冷得發抖。」"We found them (the survivors) shivering from the cold," said a local coastguard official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

在這起事件之前，克里特島外海週六也發生另一起事件，海岸警衛隊表示，當時尋獲8具遺體，並救起28名來自蘇丹的移民。週一另有3起事件，海岸警衛隊再救起187名移民。The incident comes after another on Saturday off Crete in which the coastguard retrieved eight bodies and rescued 28 migrants from Sudan, the coastguard said. In three other incidents on Monday, the coast guard rescued another 187 migrants.

週一，路透社一張照片顯示，一具以黑色袋子包裹的遺體被運上阿基亞加利尼港岸邊。On Monday, a Reuters photo showed a body wrapped in a black bag being taken ashore at the port of Agia Galini.

海岸警衛隊表示，週一有4名倖存者被送醫，其中包括一名幼兒。其他倖存者被送往克里特島一處移民收容設施。Four of the survivors were taken to hospital on Monday, including a toddler. The other survivors were taken to a migrant facility on Crete, the coastguard said.

希臘長期以來一直是來自中東、非洲和亞洲的移民與難民前往歐洲的熱門門戶。2015至2016年間，近100萬人登上希臘各島，主要來自土耳其，當時希臘位在歐洲移民危機最前線。Greece, long a favoured gateway to Europe for migrants and refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, was on the front line of Europe's migration crisis in 2015-2016 when nearly 1 million people landed on its islands, mainly from Turkey.

隨著雅典當局加強海上和邊境巡邏，移民抵達總數此後已下降。不過，近年從利比亞出發抵達的移民人數激增，這些移民多半是在逃離蘇丹和孟加拉的暴力情勢。Total migrant arrivals have since ebbed as Athens has bolstered sea and border patrols. But arrivals from Libya of migrants — mostly fleeing violence in Sudan and Bangladesh — have surged in recent years.

（蕾妮・馬爾特祖與安吉莉基・庫坦圖報導；萊夫特里斯・帕帕迪馬斯與艾瑪・法奇補充報導；克拉倫斯・費南德茲、湯瑪斯・德平豪斯、蓋瑞斯・瓊斯與雪倫・辛格頓編輯）(Reporting by Renee Maltezou and Angeliki Koutantou; Additional reporting by Lefteris Papadimas and Emma Farge; Editing by Clarence Fernandez, Thomas Derpinghaus, Gareth Jones and Sharon Singleton)