US EditionTunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars
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Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars
TUNIS: The Coast Guard has retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said on Friday, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country’s coast to 210 in 10 days. The bodies were in a decomposed state, suggesting they had been in the water for several days, said Houssem Eddine Jebabli. The cumulative total of fatalities was
Reports of shipping disasters off the coast of Tunisia have been piling up for weeks. Apparently, there are so many deaths that the authorities are unable to keep up with the funerals.
Tunisia struggles to cope with migrant corpses drowned at sea
"The number exceeds our capacity": So many migrants risking the dangerous sea crossing from Tunisia to Europe is such that the morgues and hospitals in the city of Sfax, the departure point for the crossing, are full.
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The hospitals in the coastal city of Sfax have reached their reception capacity. The sanitation situation is precarious. There are sometimes dozens of funerals every day.
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