Hope dims for missing migrants amid questions about Greece’s actions in deadly sinking

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS
Associated Press

KALAMATA, Greece (AP) — Nine survivors of a migrant boating sinking were arrested on suspicion of smuggling as hope faded for hundreds of other passengers who were missing and attention turned to Greece’s failure to act before the overcrowded ship capsized. The overloaded trawler may have carried as many as 750 passengers, including women and children who were likely trapped in the hold as the vessel overturned and sank in the wee hours of Wednesday. A huge search-and-rescue operation initially recovered 78 bodies and saved 104 survivors — all men and boys. But no more have been found.