# Migrant boats capsize off Greek islands

> Twelve migrants, including an infant, drown as boats capsize near Greek islands.
- Title: Migrant boats capsize off Greek islands · The Straits Times
- Summary: Twelve migrants, including an infant, drown as boats capsize near Greek islands. migrants, infant, greek islands · reported by The Straits Times.
- Keywords: migrants, infant, greek islands, lesbos, samos, coast guard, migrant smuggling, news, world, Migrant, boats, capsize
- Source: The Straits Times — https://straitstimes.com/world/europe/six-migrants-including-infant-die-after-boat-collision-off-greeces-lesvos
- Published: 2026-10-19T06:30:48+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: migrants, infant, greek islands, lesbos, samos, coast guard, migrant smuggling, news, world
## Migrant boats capsize off Greek islands
Twelve migrants, including an infant, drowned in two separate incidents off Greek islands in the northeastern Aegean Sea on Monday.
## First incident: Speedboat capsizes
Five men and one woman died when a speedboat carrying migrants from Turkey overturned four nautical miles north of Samos.
## Second incident: Boat collides with coast guard
Four men, one woman and an infant died when their boat collided with a Greek coast guard vessel off Lesbos.
## Key takeaway

Twelve migrants, including an infant, drowned after boats capsized off Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.