At
least 13 migrants, including children, have died after their dinghy and
a ferry collided off Turkey, the coastguard there says.
The accident happened close to the port of Canakkale. The boat was on its way to the Greek island of Lesbos.
In a second incident, Greece's coastguard said 26 people were feared missing from a boat, also off Lesbos.
Meanwhile thousands of migrants continue to cross borders in southern Europe, many now passing into Austria.
Austrian officials told the BBC they expected 20,000 over the weekend.
'We lost the children'
Turkey's
coastguard said it had raised the alarm after being told that a
commercial vessel and a migrant boat had collided off Canakkale.
It said it had sent a helicopter and six rescue boats to the area.
Eight people have been rescued, with one seriously injured. Some reports said four of the dead were children.
One
survivor who gave his name as Haseen, told AFP news agency: "It was
dark, we saw the ship bearing down on us. We tried to signal with
flashlights and cell phones but they did not see us."
The passengers were thrown into the water.
"We lost the children. We could not see them in the dark," Haseen said.
Surviving migrants are picked up following the collision off Lesbos
The bodies of those who died in the collision are retrieved by Turkish paramilitary police officers
The migrant route from Turkey to Greece via dinghy is frequent and dangerous
In the second incident, Greece's coastguard said it
had rescued 22 people spotted in the water near Lesbos - but a further
26 people were feared missing.
On Saturday, a five-year-old girl died and 13 people were feared missing after their boat also sank off Lesbos.
Trips
on makeshift craft between Turkey and Greek islands are frequent and
dangerous for migrants, many of whom are fleeing conflict in Iraq, Syria
and Afghanistan.
In other developments:
- US Secretary of State John Kerry said
the US would increase its worldwide intake of refugees from 70,000 in
2015 to 85,000 next year and 100,000 in 2017
- Croatia is relocating its refugee
operation from Tovarnik on the Serbian border to a new tented settlement
at Opatovac, with space for up to 5,000 migrants
Bitter exchanges
Meanwhile, thousands of migrants continue to cross borders further north, many of them hoping to reach Germany and Scandinavia.
Austria saw the arrival of at least 10,000 migrants on Saturday and expects double that by the end of Sunday.
Germany
says it now expects two trains from Austria, carrying 1,000 migrants in
total, to cross its border at Freilassing on Sunday evening.
Five
more trains, carrying 500 each, are expected on Monday. German police
said a planned centre for 400 migrants in Wertheim in southern Germany
was destroyed in an arson attack on Sunday morning.
Long queues of
both people and traffic have been reported at Slovenia's borders with
Croatia and Austria amid tighter restrictions.
Austria, Hungary,
Slovenia and Croatia have all traded accusations of failure to deal
effectively with the crisis over the past few days.
It
began after Hungary sealed its border with Serbia five days ago,
erecting a razor-wire fence and making it a criminal offence to cross
it.
Thousands of migrants then sought the alternative route via Croatia.
Croatia
initially welcomed the migrants but then said it was unable to cope
with the numbers and moved them over its border with Hungary, which
quickly ferried them on to Austria.
Hungary is now rushing to
finish a new fence along its Croatian border, but it has now reopened
its Serbian frontier, albeit with strict controls.
Hungary also
plans to build a fence along its Romanian border, which Romanian Foreign
Minister Bogdan Aurescu said was unacceptable.
Hungarian Foreign
Minister Peter Szijjarto said he expected "more modesty from a foreign
minister whose prime minister is currently facing trial", referring to
an ongoing corruption case.
The EU has been strongly criticised for its failure to co-ordinate a response to the migrant crisis.
Interior
ministers will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday in another attempt
to agree on relocating migrants with binding quotas for each state.
The next day, EU leaders will hold an extraordinary summit on migration.
