At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their 2 boats sank off the coast of Tunisia while crossing the Mediterranean to Italy, says the Tunisian coast guard.
Separately, in the last 4 days, 5 migrant boats have sunk off the coast of the southern city of Sfax, leaving 67 missing and 9 dead, after a significant increase in boats heading towards Italy.
Houssem Jebabli, a senior official in the National Guard told Reuters that the Tunisian coast guard had also rescued 11 people off the coast of Mahdia, further north. The latest loss of life comes in the midst of a campaign of arrests by the Tunisian authorities of undocumented sub-Saharan Africans.According to UN data, at least 12 000 migrants who reached Italy this year set sail from Tunisia, compared with 1 300 in the same period of 2022.
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