A boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast, killing eight people, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said. A search-and-rescue mission continued for about seven migrants thought to be missing.

A ministry statement said a rubber boat with about 15 people on board went down late Thursday off the coast of Fethiye.

The coast guard dispatched three boats, a team of divers, a plane and a helicopter to the area as soon as it received word of the sinking. The bodies of eight people, three of them women, were recovered, the ministry said.

There was no information on the nationalities of the migrants who were on the boat.