A total of eight people are now confirmed to have died as a result of the sinking of a passenger ferry off the coast of Kyrenia, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Sunday evening.
He said rescuers are still attempting to locate 17 people who remain unaccounted for, with the remaining 242 people who were on board the boat when it set sail from Kyrenia at midday now having been successfully brought ashore.
That notwithstanding, it is understood that dozens of people have been taken to hospitals both in Kyrenia and in northern Nicosiaafter having been taken ashore, with