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At slightest 14 radical drowned erstwhile a rubber vessel carrying migrants sank disconnected Turkiye's occidental state of Mugla connected Friday (October 24, 2025), the section governor's bureau said, adding that a hunt and rescue cognition was underway for imaginable survivors.
In a statement, the Mugla Governor's Office said an Afghan antheral who survived the catastrophe and swam backmost to the mainland had raised the alarm soon aft 1:00 a.m.
The Afghan nationalist told the exigency services that 18 radical had acceptable retired connected the rubber boat, but that soon afterwards it had taken connected h2o and sunk, the Governor's bureau said.
Search and rescue teams recovered a 2nd subsister who had managed to scope Celebi Island disconnected Bodrum. They besides retrieved 14 bodies from the sea.
"Search and rescue efforts for different irregular migrants considered missing proceed with 4 seashore defender boats, 1 seashore defender peculiar diving squad and 1 helicopter," the Governor's bureau added.
The Aegean Sea is simply a predominant transit way for thousands of migrants attempting to transverse from North Africa and the Middle East into Europe, peculiarly from Turkiye which hosts millions of refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The fig of irregular migrants caught successful Turkiye peaked successful 2019 with astir 455,000 people, chiefly from Afghanistan and Syria, according to the Presidency of Migration Management.
More than 122,000 migrants person been apprehended successful Turkiye arsenic of October 16 this year.
