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At least 8 dead as migrant boat sinks in Aegean
At least eight people have now been confirmed dead after a boat carrying undocumented migrants sank in the Aegean Sea.
16.04.2014 - Update : 16.04.2014
IZMIR, Turkey
At least eight people have drowned and five injured while one person remains unaccounted for after a boat carrying the group to the Greek islands sank.
The latest bodies recovered by the Aegean coast guard command were that of a five-year-old girl and her mother.
A boat carrying fourteen Syrian migrants was sailing illegally for the Greek islands when it sank off the Menderes district of Turkey's western Izmir province Wednesday, officials said.
The Coast Guard Command is continuing its search and rescue efforts sea and the air in the Turkish coast to find the missing one.
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