Bodies of 21 migrants found on Aegean coast

The migrants died after their boat or boats capsized in rough seas.

As of midnight Sunday, people crossing the Oresund bridge from Denmark to Sweden have to show a picture IDs to be able to get on board.

Refugees walk to a chartered train at the railway station of Passau, Germany on Tuesda.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is also under increasing pressure, with one of her key political allies demanding a cap of 200,000 refugees per year, less than a fifth of the number who registered in Germany in 2015.

Twenty-four of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the district of Ayvalik, the Turkish coast guard command told Reuters.

Seven other bodies washed up on shore at Kikili, a resort about 30 miles south of Ayvalik, the private Dogan news agency reported.

Images published by Dogan showed the small corpses of the children, fully dressed and wearing shoes, lying on the beach with their life jackets still on.

A drowned two-year-old boy became the first known migrant casualty of the year on Saturday after the crowded dinghy he was travelling in slammed into rocks off Greece’s Agathonisi island, the coastguard said. I guess these people died when they were trying to swim from the rocks.

Slovakia’s prime minister says his country is ready to deploy 25 police officers requested by Macedonia to help the Balkan country cope with the influx of migrants. Eight more migrants were rescued.

The body of a refugee is washed ashore on a beach in Ayvalik district of Balikesir after a boat carrying refugees sank off during their journey to Europe on January 5, 2015.

The tragedies are the latest involving migrants fleeing war and misery in the hope of finding a new life in Europe.

After rescuing 12 people from the frigid winter Aegean waters, the Turkish Coast Guard launched a search and rescue mission for two more people still lost at sea.

Nine bodies, including those of children, washed up on a beach in the resort town of Ayvalik early in the morning, prompting authorities to dispatch coast guard boats and gendarmerie officials to search the area by sea and by land for possible survivors.

Ankara reached an agreement with the European Union in November to stem the flow of refugees heading to Europe, in return for financial assistance.