Today morning, the “Oriku” ship of Albanian Naval Forces has identified a boat with refugees aboard. The boat was launched from the Turkish coast to the Greek coast. After identifying the boat, the ship “Oriku” has announced it to the flagship “RB”, and the “Frontex”.Thereafter, the “Oriku” ship went to the region where the boat was found and provided assistance until the arrival of Turkish “MAI 1102 FRONTEX” and “RB”.
Based on the information from various resources, at 08:37 the boat was taken over by the Frontex ship “MAI 1102” , which conducted the embarkation operation of the people aboard.
At the end of the operation, it was verified that there were 51 people on board, out of which 17 women, 12 children and 22 men.
All the people on board were of a Syrian nationality.
