A cruise liner returning from Greece has rescued about 300 people from rough seas off Cyprus.
Those rescued are thought to be Syrian refugees whose trawler had run into trouble.
The refugees, mostly women and children, were loaded aboard the Salamis Filoxenia cruise liner and were in "good health", according to George Ppouro, the harbour master in the Cypriot port of Limassol.
The vessel is expected to dock this evening in Limassol, where the interior ministry said the migrants would be given health checks.
The liner had been en route from the Greek island of Syros to Limassol when it received a call to assist in the rescue operation.
The trawler sent out a distress signal at 6.25am local time when it was about 50 miles southwest of the tourist hub of Paphos, the Cypriot government said.
"On board the ship are about 300 people that require recovery and rescue because of bad weather conditions in the area," the defence ministry said after the operation was launched.
The Mediterranean has been plagued by shipwrecks in recent months involving migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa and the Middle East.
In one of the deadliest wrecks on record, a ship carrying about 500 migrants, including Syrians, Palestinians and Egyptians, was deliberately sunk by traffickers off Malta earlier this month, leaving just ten known survivors.
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