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Tuesday 05 Jan 2016 - 14:29 Makkah mean time-25-3-1437
 Ankara (IINA) – At least 21 people, including three children, have drowned off Turkey's Aegean coast after their boat capsized in rough seas.
Eleven of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the district of Ayvalik, while ten others were found in the district of Dikili, an official told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
The incident was also reported by Turkey's Dogan news agency. Turkish coasts guards were dispatched to search for possible survivors, and there was no immediate information on the nationalities of the dead.
Refugees are known to set off from the resort town of Ayvalik on boats to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. On Sunday, a two-year-old boy became the first known refugee to drown in 2016 after the dinghy he was travelling in crashed into rocks, the Greek coastguard said. The other 39 passengers on board were rescued after fishermen alerted the coastguard, but at least 10 were taken to hospital to be treated for hypothermia after the boat got into trouble near the island of Agathonisi.
Some 850,000 migrants and refugees crossed into Greece last year, paying smuggling gangs to ferry them over from Turkey in often frail boats.
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