(15 Aug 2015) A group of nearly 10 migrants hopped on a rubber dinghy in the western Turkish tourist city of Bodrum on early Saturday morning, hoping to reach the Greek island of Kos.
The dinghy carrying migrants appeared to be close to sinking, as it was pulled by another boat and taken to the coast guard boat.
The scenes, captured early Saturday by Associated Press journalists on a moonless night, came as Turkish authorities reported that 2,791 migrants have been caught in the Aegean Sea in the past 5 days alone, most of them Syrians.
Overall, more than 33,000 migrants have been caught or rescued in the Aegean this year, according to the governor's office in Izmir.
Dozens of migrants rested in a children's park on Friday in western Turkey, waiting for their turn to leave for the Greek island of Kos.

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