Eight dead and six rescued was the final toll of the latest incident at sea involving irregular migrants, whose boat had capsized near the Turkish coastline, opposite the island of Symi, Greece, the coast guard announced on Saturday. A search-and-rescue operation mounted earlier in response to an alert sounded by the Turkish coast guard, was called off after Turkish authorities declared the incident over. Greek authorities had deployed a coast guard patrol boat and Super-Puma helicopter to comb the sea north of the island of Symi after being notified at 12:05 on Saturday that a boat carrying irregular migrants had overturned near the Turkish coast during the night. The Turkish coast guard had initially located one surviving migrant on an islet within its jurisdiction late on Friday, who claimed that there were 17 people on board the boat that overturned. (source: ana-mpa)
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