Two consecutive migrant search-and-rescue operations were carried out early Friday in the sea area south of the island Gavdos, the EU's southernmost point, with an estimated 131 people rescued from three boats, according to authorities.

More than 80 migrants have been rescued in two separate incidents off southern Crete and the nearby island of Gavdos over two days, according to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

Nearly 200 more migrants reached Greece over the past 24 hours in small boats that had mostly left from north Africa, as well as three people who zoomed across from Turkey to the…

Two consecutive migrant search-and-rescue operations were carried out early Friday in the sea area south of the island Gavdos, the EU's southernmost point, with an estimated 131…