TWENTY people died when a small boat heading for Greece capsized.
The boat had set off from the Turkish coast carrying 27 migrants and its captain.
It capsized about A mile off the coast near the Greek island of Lesvos because of strong winds, police said.
Survivors said the migrants had come from Iraq and paid £1,200 a head to be taken to the island.
The Greek coastguard found 20 bodies in the sea and were continuing to search for more.
Thousands of illegal immigrants cross the country's porous sea and land borders every year, the vast majority via Turkey.
With Greece in its fifth year of a deep recession and hit by rising crime levels, illegal immigration became a major issue in the national…