Two infant boys were among four people who died in a migrant boat sinking near the Greek Aegean island of Kos, the coastguard said late Tuesday.
Two women also died in the boat sinking, which occurred in mild weather, a coastguard spokesman said.
Twenty-seven people were rescued, including a man detained as a suspected smuggler, the spokesman told AFP.
Accidents involving migrants occur regularly off the coast of Greece, one of the main countries through which people fleeing poverty or war in Africa, Asia and the Middle East seek to enter the European Union.
Most set off from the coast of neighbouring Turkey.
In September, three people died near the Aegean island of Samos.
Source: AFP
