Tunis, Oct 11 (AFP/APP): Two bodies were recovered and seven people rescued after a boat carrying dozens of would-be migrants went down off the Tunisian coast on Sunday, the National Guard said.
“A boat carrying illegal migrants was shipwrecked off Sfax… two bodies, of a woman and a baby, were found, and seven people were rescued”, spokesman Housemeddine Jebabli told AFP.
According to initial estimates, 30 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were on board the vessel, Jebabli said, adding that a search was underway for those missing. He did not indicate where they had departed from. The number of would-be migrants attempting to cross to Europe from Tunisia had decreased sharply from a peak in 2011. However, it began rising again in 2017, driven partly by economic woes and inequality in the North African country, almost a decade after a revolution that many hoped would bring change.
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