NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Armed men have boarded and attempted to disable boats carrying asylum seekers from Turkey to Greece, advocacy group Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
The group, headquartered in New York, reported eight incidents in early October in which unidentified masked and armed men arrived in speedboats and intercepted small boats in the Aegean Sea, an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. The men allegedly damaged boat engines or fuel systems, and in the case of inflatable boats, attempted to puncture hulls.