Ten adults and one youngster rescued off the coast of Aydin provinces, authorities say.

5 folks have drowned within the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s southwestern coast after setting out on a rubber dinghy, apparently in direction of Greece, in response to the Turkish coastguard.

The incident came about early on Saturday off the city of Didim, in waters of the Turkish province of Aydin, the coastguard mentioned.

In a video launched by the Turkish coastguard, refugees and migrants on board a gray inflatable dinghy are seen waving as they’re buffeted by tough seas.

“Eleven migrants [10 adults, one child] had been rescued… and the our bodies of 5 had been discovered,” the coastguard mentioned in a press release on Saturday.

5 surviving refugees managed to achieve the Greek island of Farmakonisi, 10km (six miles) from the Turkish coast within the province of Ayrdin, the Greek coastguard mentioned.

In line with a witness account by the Greek coastguard, 31 folks had been on board the boat when it departed.

Deaths within the Aegean occur usually, with refugees and migrants boarding makeshift boats even on stormy seas making an attempt to make it to Europe.

A lady and 4 youngsters died in the identical space in the beginning of February after their inflatable boat sank.

Since 2014, 2,269 folks have drowned within the japanese Mediterranean, in response to the Worldwide Group for Migration.

Additional west within the Mediterranean, greater than 1,300 have been rescued in three separate operations off the southern tip of Italy, the Italian coastguard mentioned on Saturday, two weeks after at the least 74 folks died when their boat hit rocks close to the coast.