At least 16 people drowned, including four children, when a rubber boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey\u2019s northwest province of Canakkale, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.
\nCanakkale Governor Ilhami Aktas told Anadolu that four migrants were rescued and admitted to hospital early on Friday, while search and rescue operations continued, involving ten coastguard boats, 2 helicopters, marine police, Turkey\u2019s Disaster Management Authority (AFAD) and National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE).
\nIt was not immediately clear how many migrants were on the boat, the governor told Anadolu.
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At least 16 people, including four children, drowned when a rubber boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s northwest province of Canakkale. Four migrants were rescued and hospitalized. Search and rescue operations involved ten coastguard boats, 2 helicopters, marine police, Turkey\u2019s Disaster Management Authority (AFAD), and National Medical Rescue Team (UMKE). The total number of migrants on the boat was unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1219,2111,117,1240,3,156,1259,821,184,389,1976,2048,1705,177,18],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-boat","tag-boat-sinking","tag-boats","tag-clear","tag-cyprus","tag-hospital","tag-migrants","tag-migration","tag-police","tag-rescue","tag-rescue-operations","tag-rubber-boat","tag-search-and-rescue","tag-turkey","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n