Coastguards have rescued hundreds more migrants paddling from Turkey to Greece as authorities prepare to transport another 2,500 to a northern port. In just 24 hours some 534 people were picked up in 14 incidents off the coasts of Lesbos, Chios, Agathonissi, Samos, Farmakonissi and Kos. Exhausted migrants from Middle Eastern and Asian countries including Mauritius, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Burma and Afghanistan jumped into the sea and desperately swam towards the coast.
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