Coast guard officer who saved thousands of migrants remembered at Lesvos event

The city of Mytilini on Lesvos island paid tribute on Friday to Kyriakos Papadopoulos, a Coast Guard officer who saved thousands of refugees at sea between 2015 and 2016 before dying of heart failure nearly a year ago, ANA reports.

The local authorities named a section of the pier at Mytilini port after a man who impressed the globe through a documentary and media reports, describing what it meant to be on constant call night and day.

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