died Saturday
when their vessel sank in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, state
news agency Anadolu reported.
The boat sank off Cesme, a popular tourist resort in western Turkey opposite the Greek island of Chios, Anadolu said, adding that eight others were rescued.
The nationality of the victims was not yet known.
The sinking came hours after another boat sank in the Aegean near the Greek island of Paxi, leaving at least 12 dead.
Turkey
has taken in around 4 million migrants and refugees, most of them
Syrians, and is an important transit country for those fleeing conflicts
and seeking to reach Europe, largely via Greece.
An
agreement reached in March 2016 between Ankara and the European Union
succeeded in considerably reducing the number of people arriving on the
five islands closest to Turkey.
VOA