4 Iraqi migrants drown off Turkish coast

  18 December 2015    Read: 917
4 Iraqi migrants drown off Turkish coast
Turkey`s state-run news agency says four Iraqi migrants
Anadolu Agency says the boat was taking eight Iraqi migrants to the Greek island of Kos. It sank on Friday shortly after leaving the Turkish Aegean resort of Bodrum.

Turkish coast guards rescued the four other migrants.

Anadolu said authorities detained a Turkish man suspected of organizing the journey.

Some 770,000 refugees and other migrants from the Middle East and Africa crossed to the Aegean islands in flimsy boats provided by smuggling rings this year. Hundreds have died during the crossings.

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