Turkey’s state-run news agency says coast guards have rescued some twenty people after a boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s Aegean Sea coast.
Two of the migrants later died in the hospital.
Anadolu Agency said the boat, believed to be carrying around thirty people, sank early Monday near the resort of Gumbet, near Bodrum.
The area is close to the Greek island of Kos.
The news agency said residents in Gumbet alerted authorities after hearing cries for help and some took part in the rescue operation.
Rescue crews were searching the area for more survivors.
There was no immediate detail on the migrants’ nationalities.
Although their numbers have decreased in recent years, migrants still try to cross into Greece from nearby Turkey in the hopes of making their way to other European countries.
