Survivors tell coastguard smugglers ordered victims to be thrown overboard after running out of food and water
22 people hoping to reach Europe from north Africa have died off the coast of Greece after six days at sea in a rubber boat, survivors told the Greek coastguard.
The coastguard said on Friday that 26 people, including a woman and a minor, were rescued by a European border agency vessel off the island of Crete.
The coastguard later told AFP that 21 Bangladeshi, four South Sudanese and a Chadian citizen had survived.
Survivors said the bodies of those who had died were thrown into the Mediterranean sea.
