Refugees continue to cross the Aegean Sea in leaky boats even as the death toll rises and weather worsens
Volunteers from the Greek island of Lesbos saved 150 people from sinking boats as bodies from other sunken vessels washed up on the beach.
Refugees and migrants call for help as their boat starts to sink off the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey.Aris Messinis/AFP / Getty Images
Local residents help refugees and migrants disembark from a sinking vessel near Lesbos.Kostis Ntantamis/The Associated Press
A refugee hands a toddler to a volunteer lifeguard from a half-sunken catamaran carrying around 150 refugees.Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters
A boy cries out for help after jumping into the sea from a sinking boat.Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters
Refugees and migrants try to leave their boat as it sinks.Aris Messinis/AFP / Getty Images
A Spanish lifeguard rescues a migrant as the boat he had boarded with other migrants sinks.Aris Messinis/AFP / Getty Images
A woman hangs on a rope of a half-sunken catamaran.Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters
Syrian Kurdish refugees are rescued by Greek fishermen as the boat they had boarded sinks.Aris Messinis/AFP / Getty Images
A woman holds the wrapped body of a baby girl, who was said to have been onboard a wooden boat carrying refugees and migrants that sunk in open sea near Lesbos.Giorgos Moutafis/Reuters
A resident pulls the body of a dead man who was found on the beach on the Greek island of Lesbos.Aris Messinis/AFP / Getty Images