A factory in a Turkish city that is known as a departure point for refugees fleeing to Greece has been busted for manufacturing life jackets that don’t work.

This week, Turkish police confiscated 1,263 life jackets from a factory in Izmir, on the coast of the Aegean Sea, which were filled with material that isn’t capable of floating. Just days earlier, two boat filled with refugees capsized in the Aegean Sea, resulting in the death of at least 21 people. The boats’ drowned passengers later washed up on the beaches of Turkey.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that an additional 300 life jackets were seized from people who had already bought them. Upon closer inspection, the life jackets were stuffed with material that makes the person wearing it more likely to drown:...

According to the Sun Daily, a Malaysian newspaper, the factory used child labor to make the faulty life jackets, including two young Syrian girls. In previous visits to the coastal city, The Guardian reported seeing two separate salesmen hawking the flimsy life jackets in Izmir’s well-traveled public market: