Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars

Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars

TUNIS (Reuters) -Coastguards have 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 told Reuters. The cumulative total of fatalities was unprecedented over such a short period, he said. Numbers of …

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

Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned refugees as death toll soars

Morgues and hospitals in city of Sfax are full, officials say, as the death toll from refugee shipwrecks soars.

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.