Four dead, 20 missing as migrant boat sinks off Turkey's Black Sea coast
Four dead, 20 missing as migrant boat sinks off Turkey's Black Sea coast
A fishing boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s coast in the Black Sea early on Friday, killing at least four and leaving 20 others missing, the Turkish coast guard said.
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There was no information on the nationalities of the migrants [Anadolu]
Four people drowned and up to 20 were missing on Friday after a fishing boat carrying migrants sunk off Turkey's Black Sea coast, reports said.
Thirty-eight migrants were rescued but search and rescue efforts are in progress to find 15-20 people still missing in the incident off the Kefken district of the Kocaeli province east of Istanbul, the Anadolu and Dogan news agencies said.
There was no information on the nationalities of the migrants or where they were heading to. Migrants, however, are increasingly trying to cross the Black Sea from Turkey to reach Romania.
Ambulances and medical teams were sent to the port of Kefken and were waiting for boats carrying the rescued migrants, the Dogan news agency reported.
The coast guard plane, a helicopter, three vessels as well as five commercial ships had joined the search and rescue effort, the coast guard said.
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