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Greece shipwreck: Desperate search for loved ones as 9 suspects appear in court

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Inside a fenced migrant camp near Athens, relatives hugged survivors, while others refused to abandon hope of finding loved ones who were among the scores missing after one of the Mediterranean's deadliest shipping disasters last week.

Only 104 people are known to have survived when an aging fishing vessel carrying up to 750 people sank in the early hours of June 14 to the south-west of Greece. There are 78 people confirmed dead so far. Search and rescue operations are ongoing, although no survivors or bodies have been found since last week.

Relatives have been turning up outside the Malakasa migrant facility since survivors were brought there on Friday, showing photos of the missing through the camp gates, in the hopes someone might recognize them.

"I'm looking for my brother. I want to see where the boat sunk to try to find him," said 54-year-old Mohamed El Sayed El-Dadamony Radwan, who travelled from Germany, after reuniting with nephew Atia Al Said, who survived.

Meanwhile, the nine suspects in the fatal shipwreck appeared before a Greek prosecutor on Monday to hear charges against them, including human trafficking. The suspects arrived at the courthouse in Kalamata in marked and unmarked police vehicles and were taken directly inside the building. The nine, all Egyptian nationals, aged between 20 and 40 years, were arrested over the shipwreck late on Thursday.

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