Six children drowned on Tuesday after a rubber dinghy carrying Afghan migrants to Greece sank off the coast of Turkey’s Aegean region, The Associated Press reported. While the coast guard rescued five migrants from the sea, they are still trying to locate two others reported missing, according to Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu Agency. It also confirmed that the bodies of the children, whose ages were not revealed, had been recovered. The Afghan migrants were reportedly trying to reach the Greek island of Khios from Cesme in Turkey, despite bad weather.
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