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Other Local Resorts & Areas => Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum => Topic started by: KKOB on January 04, 2020, 10:20:04 AM

Title: 8 migrants drown off the coast of Fethiye
Post by: KKOB on January 04, 2020, 10:20:04 AM

Eight people, including three women, died after a boat carrying 15 migrants sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast.

https://ahvalnews.com/refugees/eight-migrants-die-after-boat-sinks-turkish-coast

Title: Re: 8 migrants drown off the coast of Fethiye
Post by: SteveJ on January 06, 2020, 06:43:12 AM

I don't understand why the news reporter feels the need to qualify the introduction by adding "including three women". Surely the tragic loss of eight lives is not diminished because five of them were men?