22 migrants including 7 children dead in Aegean Sea
ISTANBUL: Twenty-two migrants including seven children have drowned after a boat capsized off the Turkish coast, local officials said today.
Two people were rescued by the Turkish coast guard and another two managed to make it out of the water on their own, officials said.
The victims’ nationalities were not yet known.
The boat capsized off Turkey’s largest island, called Gokceada or Imbros, which is located in the Aegean Sea off the coast of the northwestern province of Canakkale, near Greece’s Lemnos island.
“The Turkish coast guard found the bodies of 22 people including seven children,” the local governor’s office said in a statement.
The search and rescue operation was backed by one airplane, two helicopters, a drone, 18 boats and 502 personnel, it added.
Turkey is hosting nearly four million refugees, mostly Syrians.
Many migrants try to reach the Greek islands from…
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