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12 Migrants Drown Near Turkey

(IDOMENI, Greece) — Turkey’s coast guard says 12 migrants have drowned after a boat taking them to the Greek islands capsized in rough weather. A coast guard statement said 26 others were rescued on Thursday off the Turkish Aegean resort of Foca, near Turkey’s third-largest city, Izmir. One of the survivors, 31-year-old Iraqi national Yusuf Ali, told the state-run Anadolu Agency that he lost his wife and child in the incident. Ali was quoted as saying: “The boat started to take in water.

 

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