A woman, who survived after a plastic boat carrying Syrians to Greece sunk, is helped by a Turkish policeman and medics in the Aegean resort town of Kusadasi, Turkey. Latif Sansur/Dogan News Agency via REUTERS
ANKARA (Reuters) - Five children were among 11 Syrians killed after their plastic boat sank off Turkey's Aegean coast on Friday, the Dogan news agency said, the first such reported incident in months on an illegal migrant route meant to have been all but shut down.
Television footage showed rescue workers standing next to bodies washed up on a beach near the coastal town of Kusadasi. The boat, believed to have been carrying 22 Syrian migrants, had been heading for Greece.
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