Migrants turn to capricious Black Sea

CONSTANTA, Romania - While the arrival of exhausted migrants may be common on Mediterranean shores, it's a rare sight on the Black Sea coastline.

But a string of recent arrivals from Turkey suggests it may be emerging as part of a new "Romanian route" to western Europe.

Shortly before dawn on Wednesday last week, around 150 people, a third of them children, were rescued in the Black Sea - the fifth migrant boat to be intercepted by Romanian authorities since mid-August.