Six die as Georgian ship sinks off Turkey

　　At least six people died and nearly 50 were missing after a Georgian-flagged cargo ship (货船) bound for Gree ce with dozens of people in its hold split in two and s ank off Turdey's Mediterranean coast.

　　Coastguard commander Can Karaca told reporters in A ntalya that rescuers had saved more than 30 people and pulled six bodies from the water near the wreck of the Pati before high winds and cold weather forced them to suspend the search.

　　Those rescued included six of the ship's 10 crew an d 10 Iranians and 16 Pakistanis who had been in the shi p's hold and apparently hoped to enter Greece illegally . One person was taken to hospital for treatment, the c oast guard said.

　　One section of the ship was stuck on offshore rocks which officials believed it had struck. Some of the mis sing were thought to be in a sunken portion of the vess el.

　　Karaca said one of the Pakistanis had told rescuers he had been locked in the hold with about 50 other peop le.

　　Eight people drowned when a small boat ferrying ill egal immigrants to Greece capsized in the Aegean in Aug ust.

　　By Joseph Logan