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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek and Turkish authorities recovered the bodies of 16 people who drowned in a river last week while trying to cross into the European Union, Greek police said on Wednesday.
The victims, all of African and Asian origin, were part of a larger group which had crossed the Evros river on June 25.
Turkish people-smugglers had ferried the children by boat but told the adults to swim across. "Some were swept by the stream and drowned," the police statement said.
Almost nine out of ten illegal immigrants use Greece as their springboard into the EU. A total of 6,600 illegal border crossings were detected in the country in the first quarter of 2010, according to EU border agency Frontex.
The Greek-Turkish land border at Evros is a frequently used gateway. The EU has long tried in vain to convince Turkey, which aspires to become a member, to do more to control departures from its Western borders towards Greece.
(Reporting by Harry Papachristou; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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