wooden boat: Greek authorities detain 105 illegal migrants: THESSALONIKI - The Associated Press

Greek authorities have detained 105 illegal migrants and arrested three suspected smugglers in two separate incidents near the country's eastern borders, police said on Monday.

Border guards found a total of 73 migrants hidden in a refrigerated truck during a road check late Sunday near the northern town of Xanthi, some 200 kilometers east of Thessaloniki, police said.

The truck driver escaped, but police arrested three people in two cars accompanying the vehicle, suspected of being part of a gang that smuggled the migrants into Greece from Turkey.

Police said the migrants -- who included 16 women and a boy -- were from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Eritrea, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Palestine.

Also Sunday, the coast guard detained 32 illegal migrants found on a leaking wooden boat near the eastern Aegean Sea island of Chios, the Merchant Marine Ministry said.

The migrants' nationalities were not announced.  ¶ 8:25 PM