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Fourteen people and a body found on Greek island after boat tragedy

People on a dinghy with a broken motor drift as they try to reach the Greek Island of Kos after leaving Bodrum, Turkey, with hopes of crossing the Mediterrean Sea [File: Umit Bektas/Reuters]

A group of 14 refugees and migrants and the body of a man have been found on the shore of Farmakonisi, a tiny Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea.

Authorities said on Tuesday the victim and survivors – five men, six women and three children – had apparently arrived on the remote island from the Turkish coast in a dinghy that sank.

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