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Migrant boat sinks off Turkey coast, 8 killed

Tribune Web Desk

Updated At : 01:16 PM Jan 04, 2020 IST

Ankara, January 3

A boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast, killing eight persons, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said on Friday.

A search-and-rescue mission continued for about seven migrants thought to be missing. A ministry statement said a rubber boat with about 15 people on board went down late Thursday off the coast of Fethiye, in Turkey’s southwest corner.

The coast guard dispatched three boats, a team of divers, a plane and a helicopter to the area as soon as it received word of the sinking. The bodies of eight people, three of them women, were recovered. — AP

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Migrant boat sinks off Turkey coast, 8 killed

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