Migrant boat overturned – at least three people dead

Helicopters, coastguards and private boats have been searching for the missing since two men managed to swim ashore. Later, two women’s bodies and a dead man were pulled from the sea.

People smugglers in Turkey are increasingly choosing routes that cross the high seas to avoid the well-guarded waters of the eastern Aegean Sea, where several large Greek islands lie close to the Turkish coast.

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