ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Greek police arrested 142 people trying to cross the country`s borders illegally in three different groups by truck and boat.
All three groups had come from Turkey, Ekathimerini.com reported.
The first arrests involved 73 people found in a refrigerator truck in Kavala in northwest Greece. The group included individuals from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Palestine, with 16 women and a boy as well as men.
The driver of the truck fled, but three people in cars escorting the truck were arrested.
Another 32 people were rescued off the island of Chios from a leaky wooden boat. A second boatload of 37 illegal immigrants was found early Monday off the island of Samos.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
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