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Turkey's coast guard: 5 migrants found dead, 9 rescued

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AP Istanbul
Last Updated : Dec 20 2016 | 8:42 PM IST
Turkey's coast guard says it has retrieved the bodies of five migrants, including a child, off the Turkish coast.
The Turkish Coast Guard says in a statement it responded to an accident report early today near the Ayvalik district in western Turkey and recovered a half-sunk boat carrying migrants.
It says seven adults and one child were saved from the sea and one person was rescued from an island.
A photo of the operation shows a man being pulled out of the water in the dark.
More than a million refugees and migrants travelled from Turkey to Greece and on to other European Union countries until a deal struck in March between Turkey and the EU to return the migrants significantly reduced the number of crossings.

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First Published: Dec 20 2016 | 8:42 PM IST

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