AFP, Ankara
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 40 people who drowned after a boat carrying at least 60 would-be immigrants sank at the weekend in the Aegean Sea off western Turkey, a local official said Monday.
“Forty bodies have been found so far and only six survivors,” said Orhan Sefik Guldibi, the top administrative official in Seferihisar, near the city of Izmir. “We still have hope of finding survivors, but every passing hour is working to our disadvantage,” Guldibi told AFP by telephone. [Read more]