Dozens of migrants feared dead as boat sinks off Tunisia coast - reports
Scores of migrants drowned on Friday when their boat sank in international waters off the Tunisian coast.
The UN migration agency places the death toll at 50 with 16 survivors. The state-run Tunis Afrique Presse agency says at least 70 people have died. Fishing boats rescued the survivors, it said. The Tunisian defence ministry said the boat left Zwara on the north-western Libyan coast on Thursday.
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