(MENAFN) On Friday, forty-four illegal migrants stranded on rocks in the Aegean Sea were saved by the Turkish Coast Guard, according to security sources.
After running into a storm on their way to Greece's Lesbos island, the migrants sought refuge on the rocks of Mendirek off the coast of Balikesir, Turkey, stated the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on talking to the media.
A fisherman who heard the migrants' shrieks called the coast guard, which saved the migrants.
The migrants are from South Africa, Senegal, Congo, Palestine, and Mali, the sources emphasized.
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