Migrant missing as boat capsizes off Turkish coast

Published May 3rd, 2005 - 09:49 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

A boat carrying illegal migrants from Mauritania and Somalia to Greece capsized Tuesday off the coast of Turkey, <i>Anatolia news agency</i> reported. One migrant was missing.


Nineteen migrants and the Turkish captain managed to swim ashore, the agency reported. The Turkish Coast Guard was searching for the missing migrant in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Aliaga in western Turkey.


 

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