translated from Spanish: Fourteen migrants rescued after their boat sank off Turkey’s shores

Turkish authorities on Friday announced the rescue of fourteen migrants on board a boat that has sunk in the Aegean Sea while trying to cover the route to Grecia.La Coast Guard has detailed that the vessel has it has sunk off the coast of Mugla province (southwest) and confirmed that there is a missing child. For its part, the Ministry of Defence has arrested 30 irregular migrants after finding a boat adrift near the town of Farmakonisi, as reported by the Turkish state news agency, Anatolia.Turkish coastguard rescued 39 on Thursday 39 migrants in the Aegean after the boat they were travelling on ran aground off the coast of Edirne province.According to official figures, nearly 180,000 irregular migrants have been intercepted this year while trying to reach Greece, where arrivals have skyrocketed in recent weeks. More than 26,000 migrants and refugees are on the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea awaiting resolution of their situation or being transferred to mainland Greece, an unprecedented figure since the peaks recorded in 2016, according to Greek government data.

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