At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries have drowned in the sinking of three boats off Tunisia, the coast guard announced on Sunday.
Twenty-nine bodies were found and the coast guard “rescued eleven illegal migrants of several African nationalities after the sinking of their boats” off the coast of central-eastern Tunisia, according to a press release which mentions three separate shipwrecks.
A Tunisian trawler has recovered 19 bodies after a boat sank 58 kilometers offshore.
A coastguard patrol found eight bodies off the coastal town of Mahdia and rescued 11 migrants whose boat heading for Italy capsized, while trawlers recovered two more bodies.