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Greece: 12 more migrants die in ferry boat fire

01 September 1999

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On 1 November, there was a fire on the ferry "Superfast III" from Greece to Italy, a very modern ferry only one year old. At first it did not seem anything serious and the ferry had plenty of time to turn back to the Greek port of Patras, where the passengers were disembarked and the fire extinguished. But when the firefighters searched the garage-area they discovered between the burnt trucks and cars the bodies of at least 12 migrants, most likely Iraqi Kurds. They had no time to escape as the garage was not equipped with an alarm. The Greek government has opened two enquiries on how the fire started and how the migrants entered the ferry without being noticed by the border police and truck-drivers.

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