The 15,400-gt Cypriot-flagged Salamis Filoxenia (built 1975) brought the refugees on board. Most were women and children, according to local authorities.
The trawler had carried the migrants from Syria to Cyprus only a few days after US bombings in the Middle East.
September has seen 700 people feared dead in two separate boat wrecks in the Mediterranean Sea, as announced by the International Organization for Migration.
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