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Nine migrants drown off Turkey’s Mediterranean coast: state media
ISTANBUL, June 3, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Nine migrants seeking to head to Europe
in a speedboat drowned on Sunday when the vessel sank off Turkey’s
Mediterranean coast, state media reports said.
The boat hit trouble off the Demre district of Turkey’s Mediterranean
Antalya province, a popular holiday spot, the state-run Anadolu news agency
said. As well as the nine who died, five were rescued while one person was
still missing, it added.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1416 hrs