(AP) Cypriot authorities are alarmed over the arrival of four boats carrying Syrian and Lebanese migrants in waters off the east Mediterranean island nation’s coastline within a 48-hour span.
Cyprus police said Sunday that four vessels appeared off Cyprus’ eastern and southern coast over the last two days carrying a total [of] 123 migrants and about half of them have been permitted to disembark.
Some 21 migrants remain aboard a boat that is adrift off Cyprus’ southeastern tip as a result of a faulty engine. Police said three women and nine children had earlier been taken off the boat and transferred to a Cypriot hospital as a precaution.
