Five children among 17 trapped migrants to drown in latest boat sinking

Five children and five women were among 17 Syrians drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast on Sunday. They died when they were trapped in the cabin of the vessel as it went down on its way to the Greek island of Leros. Another 20 refugees, who were on the deck and wearing life jackets, were able to swim to shore and survived, the Turkish coast guard said. No one was missing or unaccounted for. Amir Cicek, governor of Mugla province, said the 37 Syrians had boarded the boat at the holiday resort of Gumusluk on the Bodrum peninsula. It sank soon after leaving the coast.

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The drownings added to the growing death toll from the migration crisis gripping Europe. Some 500 migrants were rescued in seven operations launched over the weekend in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said. Four of the rescue operations had already wound up but the others were still to be completed on Sunday. "Saturday was quiet on the whole but now there is further movement,“ a spokesman said. "We have had several interventions – one by a ship belonging to medical charity MSF, two coastguard units as well as an Italian naval ship and a ship belonging to EU Navfor Med.”

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