Boath sank off Marmaris carrying 60 foreigners

Two Coast Guard teams carry on search and rescue efforts to find the foreigners and the boat which sank nine miles off Kadirgaburnu of Marmaris town.

Marmaris Head official Cemalettin Ozdemir said that they have not found anything until now, adding that the boat which had departed from Marmaris for Rhodes island was carrying nearly 60 illegal immigrants of Jordanian, Iraqi and Afghan origin.

Iraqi foreigner Huseyin Abdul was rescued yesterday. He said that the boat sank while carrying foreigners illegally to Rhodes island of Greece.