ATHENS (Reuters) -Three migrants drowned when their boat overturned off Greece’s southernmost island of Gavdos on Tuesday and the coast guard was still searching on Wednesday for people reported missing.

So far, 56 people have been rescued, including one injured person who had been hospitalised on the nearby large island of Crete, a coast guard official said.

Survivors said more people were in the boat when it capsized about 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Gavdos, another coast guard officer said. At least four vessels and an aircraft of the European Union border agency Frontex were looking for survivors.

Greece was on the front line of a 2015-16 migration crisis when more than a million people from the Middle East and Africa crossed into Europe.

Flows have ebbed since then but both Cret

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