The bodies of two women found on Friday morning in the wreck of a ship off Kyrenia have been identified, the occupied north’s “prime minister” Unal Ustel announced.
Ustel named the two women as Serife Ozdemir and Nazmiye Ozbolat, adding that their families had already been informed by the “police.”
Following the identification process, the death toll from the maritime disaster rose to 12, while 16 people remain unaccounted for.
Ustel said search efforts to locate the missing were continuing uninterrupted, around the clock, with support from Turkey and the involvement of all relevant services. He said teams were tracking developments on the ground minute by minute and were using all available means to find those still missing.
He also offered condolences to the families of the two women who had been identified.
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