The testimonies of people who survived or saw the tragic shipwreck in Agathonisi are shocking, when a wooden boat capsized near the shores, killing 16 of the 22 refugees on board. The testimonies were broadcast by Star.
"When I went I saw the corpses directly, I took out two or three, and I was looking there with a boat I had, I saw one here, a child, a small child, a girl, what can I describe to you? The situation is tragic, that is, you can not see them Said Giannis Kanellis, a diver from Agathonisi. As he said, he found one of the three immigrants who managed to escape. "He had, as he told me, his wife had three children. The man is crazy, when I came back the first - the first thing I found was his little boy a little boy he had, I asked him what he was wearing he told me, I found the child I did not say anything to him I do not know I did not find it because what tell the man, then I found his wife after a newborn who was not found what to tell the man what to tell him? ».
"The engine broke down as we were coming to Greece. I was breastfeeding my baby. We started to worry and got up on the boat. In a few minutes we were in the water. My baby is lost "was the description of the only woman who managed to get ashore after swimming a mile.
The testimony of a fisherman about the shipwreck is shocking, as the photographer Giorgos Moutafis conveys it on Facebook: "I was the first to reach the spot and saw people washed away by the sea on the rocks. Next to her I saw a pregnant woman floating drowned and next to her was a child. They were all wearing life jackets! I transported 10 people with my boat and took them to the boat of the port that had reached the point of the wreck. 16 were drowned and another 2 must be missing ".
"The one who brought them threw them into the sea, did not take them ashore, did not sink. The one who went out and spoke English with the people said that it was 7 o'clock and threw them into the sea. A boat was not found, there is no boat "said a resident from Agathonisi.