At least 14 people were killed when an inflatable boat carrying migrants crashed into a Turkish coast guard vessel off Turkey's southern province of Antalya on Monday, the coast guard said in a statement.
The coast guard said the high-speed boat was detected early on Monday off the coast of the Finike district of Antalya and that it tried to flee from the coast guard despite repeated warnings to stop. It later collided with a coast guard vessel, the statement added.
It said six migrants and one Turkish national were rescued, but that 14 were found dead and 15 others were caught after continuing in their boat until they reached land.
Five migrant bodies found on Libya’s Qasr al-Akhyar coast
Additionally, two weeks ago, at least five bodies of migrants including two women have been washed ashore in َQasr al-Akhyar, a coastal town in the east of Libya's capital Tripoli, a police officer told Reuters.
Hassan Al-Ghawil, head of investigations at the Qasr Al-Akhyar police station, said that according to people in the area, a child's body washed ashore and because of the waves' height the body returned to the sea, and the coast guard was asked to search for it.
Ghawil said the bodies are all dark-skinned people. The bodies were found on Emhamid Al-Sharif shore in the western part of the town by people who reported to the police station.