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Summary 29 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday in a crippled boat south of the Greek island of Crete, according to regional authorities.

Content <p>A group of 29 migrants was rescued Tuesday off a crippled boat in the Mediterranean Sea south of Crete, Greek authorities said, on an increasingly busy migration route from North Africa <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to Europe</a>.</p><p>A coast guard statement said the boat was located about 27 miles south of Gavdos, a small island off Crete's southern coast, by a passing merchant ship after passengers made a distress call.</p><p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/8-killed-vehicle-carrying-suspected-migrants-veers-albanian-river" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>8 KILLED AFTER VEHICLE CARRYING SUSPECTED MIGRANTS VEERS INTO ALBANIAN RIVER</strong></a></p><p>The migrants were being ferried to southern Crete. No information was immediately available on their health, nationality or port of embarkation.</p><p>Southern Crete and Gavdos, 27 nautical miles off the island, have seen a substantial increase in migrant arrivals this year. Most leave from the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/middle-east" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eastern Libyan</a> port of Tobruk, having paid smuggling gangs up to $5,000 each.</p><p>According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/united-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Nations</a> data, more than 1,200 people have reached the area this year, out of a total of about 9,600 who arrived in Greece by sea.</p><p>On Sunday, another 74 people were rescued off a boat south of Gavdos, which is about 11 square miles in size and has just a few dozen residents in the winter. Two of the people on the vessel were later arrested on suspicion of belonging to a migrant-smuggling gang.</p>

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