Child becomes first migrant casualty of 2016

The MOAS fast-rescue boat was deployed, guided by fishermen who took the team to a rudimentary shack where the wet, bleeding refugees huddled.

A rescue operation was underway off the Oinousses island on Sunday to locate six people missing after another similar boat incident, the Greek Coast Guard said.

A 3-month old infant boy was also hospitalized for severe hypothermia, but the doctors managed to stabilize him. MOAS charity worked to pull survivors from the wreckage after local fishermen alerted the Greek coastguard. "Today we came face-to-face with one of the youngest victims of this ongoing refugee crisis. It is a tragic reminder of the thousands of people who have died trying to reach safety in miserable conditions", said MOAS founder and United States entrepreneur Christopher Catrambone.

There was no immediate information about their nationalities.

Dozens of migrants that were stranded on a small island between Turkey and Greece are now safe.

This 3-month-old baby boy suffered hypothermia but survived after treatment

A two-year-old Syrian boy is the first sea migrant casualty of 2016, while 10 other asylum seekers were injured, the Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station said this evening.

Most were refugees fleeing war and violence in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.

The case is horribly reminiscent of the three-year-old Syrian child whose limp body was photographed washed up on a Turkish beach in September.

Many refugees make the sea journey between Turkey and Greece on overcrowded boats and rubber vessels, often left to their fate by people traffickers.

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