ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Twenty two migrants have died off the coast of Greece after six days at sea in a rubber boat, survivors told the Greek coastguard Saturday.

The coastguard late Friday said 26 people, including a woman and a minor, were rescued by a Frontex European border agency vessel off Crete.

Survivors said the bodies of those who had died were thrown into the sea and that the boat had left Tobruk, a port city in eastern Libya, on 21 March.