16 refugees drown in waters between Turkey and Greece

A man carries a child to a dinghy as migrants prepare to travel by dinghy from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Chios, near Cesme, Turkey, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. Well over half a million migrants have arrived in Greece from Turkey and the vast majority don’t want to stay so head north through the Balkans to other, more prosperous European Union countries.(AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)

Sixteen migrants lost their lives after two boats sank in the waters between Turkey and Greece, according to officials.