The death toll from last week’s sinking of a fishing boat crammed with refugees and migrants off the coast of southwestern Greece climbed to 82, with hundreds more feared drowned. The body of a migrant was recovered in an area close to the sinking, said the state-run news agency, adding that search operations are still underway with the participation of a Greek frigate, helicopter and aircraft.

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