The Greek and Turkish Coast Guards are still searching for two missing persons in two unrelated accidents.

According to officials from both countries, two ships carrying refugees sank in a narrow ocean between Turkier and the Greek island of Lesbos, killing at least 16 people.

The accident on board had a total of about 66 people, and on Thursday, the authorities were unaware of the rescue efforts in another country.

On the Greek side, the country’s coast guard said one of the patrol boats encountered a small rubber boat, about five meters (5.5 yards), which was watery, and rescued 23 people – 11 minors, eight men and four women, including 31 travelers.

Later, authorities recovered the bodies of seven people – three women, two boys, a girl and a man after a search and rescue operation (including helicopters, coast guard ships and Frontex European border agencies).

Rescue personnel are still searching for a young girl Thursday night, whose survivors are reportedly missing, the Greek Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard said one of the survivors was identified as a 20-year-old man and was arrested for allegedly becoming a people’s smuggler after other passengers allegedly determined he had sent a rubber boat.

Authorities in Canakkale, Northwestern Province, said the Coast Guard received an emergency call from a boat early Thursday morning, rescuing 25 people after deploying three ships and a helicopter.

The statement said that nine bodies had been recovered and the search for a missing person continued. Turkish media said the survivors were taken to a hospital in Tukuye.

Shipwrecks are very common on the short but dangerous routes between the Turkish coast and nearby Greek Samos, Rhodes and Lesbos, which are entries fleeing conflict and poverty in the European Union.

The Greek government’s patrol at sea has added suppression, and many smuggling rings have shifted their operations south, using larger ships to transport people from the northern coast of Africa to southern Greece.

Last year, more than 54,000 people used the Eastern Mediterranean route to Greece last year, and used more than 7,700 small land borders with Turkey.

A total of 125 people died or disappeared.