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The Latest: 16 migrants dead off the coast of Greek island
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the sinking of a suspected migrant boat off Greece (all times local): 6:30 p.m.Greece's coast guard says 16 migrants have died after a boat sank off a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, including six children. This raises the figure from the 14 announced previously. The United Nations' Refugee Agency says Saturday that this is the first shipwreck in the Aegean in 2018, but adds that some 500 refugees and migrants have lost their lives or gone missing in the Aegean over the past two years.Sunday is the second anniversary of a European Union-Turkey deal blocking mass migration into Europe.