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World in brief: May 30, 2023
People watch rescuers use a crane after a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims to a shrine skid off a highway bridge into a Himalayan gorge near Jammu, India, May 30, 2023

GREECE: The death toll from a migrant boat sinking last week off the resort island of Mykonos has tripled to nine after more bodies were found today.

The bodies of four women and a man were discovered by divers inside the sunken speedboat that had departed from Turkey, and one 18-year-old woman’s remains washed up to the shore. Six people are still missing.

 

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