9/26/2014

MV Salamis Filoxenia saved 300 Syrian refugees

MV Salamis Filoxenia operated by Salamis Lines vessel picks up Syrian refugees from fishing boat off west coast of Cyprus. Cruise ship 15,400-gt Cypriot-flagged MV Salamis Filoxenia (built 1975) brought the refugees on board. Most were women and children, according to local authorities. Trawler had carried the migrants from Syria to Cyprus only a few days after US bombings in the Middle East.