{"id":6066,"date":"2025-04-05T17:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/58-migrants-arrive-on-southern-coast-of-crete\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:16:59","slug":"58-migrants-arrive-on-southern-coast-of-crete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/58-migrants-arrive-on-southern-coast-of-crete\/","title":{"rendered":"58 Migrants Arrive On Southern Coast Of Crete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"H\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Heraklion, Crete \u2013 April 5, 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the early hours of Saturday, April 5, 2025, a group of 58 migrants disembarked on Gerokampos beach along the southern coast of Heraklion, within the Municipality of Gortyna. The group, comprising 57 men and one woman, arrived at dawn and is set to be transferred to a temporary accommodation facility in Heraklion later today.<\/h2>\n<p>Authorities report that the majority of the migrants identified themselves as Egyptian nationals, with a smaller number claiming to be from Sudan. The arrival marks another instance of migrant landings on Crete, a trend that has seen increased activity in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials are coordinating the transfer and processing of the group, with further details expected as the situation develops.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tApril 2025, Crete, Egypt, Gerokampos beach, Gortyna, Greece news, Greek news, Heraklion, migrants, southern coast, Sudan, temporary accommodation\t<\/div>\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2025\/04\/05\/58-migrants-arrive-on-southern-coast-of-crete\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heraklion, Crete \u2013 April 5, 2025 In the early hours of Saturday, April 5, 2025, a group of 58 migrants disembarked on Gerokampos beach along the southern coast of Heraklion, within the Municipality of Gortyna. The group, comprising 57 men and one woman, arrived at dawn and is set to be transferred to a temporary &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"58 Migrants Arrive On Southern Coast Of Crete\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/58-migrants-arrive-on-southern-coast-of-crete\/#more-6066\" aria-label=\"Read more about 58 Migrants Arrive On Southern Coast Of Crete\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mig-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}