Two bodies found near the wreck of a catamaran that sank off Kyrenia in the occupied north have been identified as those of five-year-old Mehmet Asaf Bicer and Nihat Pancar, the Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’s office’ said on Tuesday evening.
The boy’s 12-year-old sister is still missing. The bodies were found earlier this week about one kilometre from where the Filo Jet catamaran went down on August 30.
The ‘prime minister’s office’ said another body had been found and would also be identified through DNA testing.
A month after the sinking, the official death toll stands at 18, and 10 people are still missing. Two vessels are searching underwater, alongside aircraft and other boats.
(Information from Cyprus News Agency)
