Death toll in migrant boat sinking rises to 25

A Turkish Coast Guard boat and medics are seen with rescued migrants at the port of Didim, Turkey, Sunday, March 6, 2016 (AP Photo/Huseyin Caliskan)
A Turkish Coast Guard boat and medics are seen with rescued migrants at the port of Didim, Turkey, Sunday, March 6, 2016. (AP/Huseyin Caliskan)

Turkey’s state-run news agency says the coast guard has recovered the bodies of seven more migrants off Turkey’s Aegean coast, raising the death toll in the migrant tragedy to 25.

The migrants drowned after their boat sank Sunday off the Aegean resort town of Didim en route to one of the Greek islands, the Anadolu Agency reports.

Fifteen other migrants were rescued.

AP

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