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Death toll in migrant boat sinking off Turkey rises to 58 - TV

06/09/2012 - 12:40

ANKARA (Reuters) - The number of people who died after a boat carrying migrants sank off western Turkey's Aegean coast has risen to 58, Turkish news channels reported on Thursday.

Tahsin Kurtbeyoglu, the governor of Menderes, a coastal district in Izmir province, earlier told state television TRT that 39 people had died but that he expected the death toll to rise.

(Writing by Jonathon Burch, editing by Tim Pearce)