Several dead, scores missing after migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
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Migrant boats sink off Tunisia; five dead, at least 33 missing
TUNIS (Reuters) - Four African migrant boats sank off Tunisia on Wednesday and Thursday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, leaving at least five dead and 33 missing, while the Coast Guard rescued 84 others, a judicial official told Reuters. Judge Faouzi Masmoudi said the boats sank off the coast of Sfax, adding that the frequency of such attempted crossings has increased significantly recently. (Reporting by Tarek Amara; Edi…
Tunisia: Five migrants drowned and 28 missing in shipwreck
Five people drowned, 28 missing and only five rescued is the preliminary result of the wreck of a sub-Saharan migrant boat off the coast of Tunisia, human rights organizations in that African country reported on Wednesday. READ ALSO: Thousands of migrants rescued off Italian shores The boat left Sfax, in eastern Tunisia, bound for the Italian island of Lampedusa and capsized with 38 passengers on board, most of them from the Ivory Coast. Romdha…
Migrants: at least five people have died and 28 others are missing after a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia
Their boat carried at least 38 passengers, most of whom were from Ivory Coast. The boat had left the coastal region of Sfax to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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