Syrian refugees rescued at sea took this picture to thank the crews that saved them: “It was 11:30 o’clock at night when we passed the sea broder to Greece, just half an hour after we had left Dikeli in Turkey. We hit a rock and our dinghy started taking on water. We desperately tried to empty it but suddenly it broke and started sinking. We fell into the sea. Some of us could not swim. Everybody was screaming and crying.I was holding on a piece of wood. We stayed nine hours in the sea. I got so tired that i fell asleep in the sea on my back. Maybe I was unconscious. Then I heard someone screaming. A boat passed by and some others of us screamed for help. It was grey. As much as they were passing by going back and forth they didn’t come to save us. Why? Are we not worth? That was around 7 o’clock in the morning. After that a cargo boat by the name YALKER arrived. It saved me. Some other got saved by a fisher boat. The people on bord of the Yalker gave us their clothes, coffee, something to eat. I heard others crying and I cried a lot too because I thought my friend had died. Later I saw he had survived too. Two other Syrians saved him holding his body for all the time over the water. We all survived.” Read the full story here: lesvos.w2eu.net/2013/09/17/12-syrians-saved-by-russian-cargo-yalker-and-fisher-boat/
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:44:18 +0000
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