Vessel with 400 migrants sends distress signal, warns guns aboard     

Athens : A freighter with hundreds of migrants on board issued a distress signal today while sailing northwest of the Greek island of Corfu, the Greek coastguard said. A coastguard source said the Moldovan-flagged ship Blue Sky M had some 400 migrants on board and that a Greek navy frigate and a rescue helicopters had been dispatched to the area. Greek media reported that a number of armed men are on board the vessel, but the coastguard has not confirmed this. The freighter is suspected to have suffered engine failure. Winds of around 49 kilometres an hour were blowing in the vicinity.