At least 22 migrants drowned and 200 were rescued when a boat capsized in the Aegean Sea off the Turkish coast while they were trying to reach the Greek island of Kos on Tuesday, local media said.
The boat went down off the coast of the Datca peninsula, not far from the resort town of Bodrum, where the drowned body of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi washed up two weeks ago, in a tragic image that shocked people around the world.
Television footage showed a crowded Turkish coastguard ship carrying rescued people to the shore. No one was immediately available for comment at the coastguard.
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