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2023.04.12 19:26 GMT+8

10 dead after boat sinks off Tunisia's eastern coast

Updated 2023.04.12 20:22 GMT+8
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Ten migrants trying to reach Europe from sub-Saharan Africa drowned off the coast of Tunisia after their boat was wrecked in the Mediterranean, the Tunisian National Guard said on Wednesday. 

"Seventy-two migrants were rescued and 10 bodies recovered after Tuesday's shipwreck" off Tunisia's second city of Sfax, spokesperson Houssem Jebabli said, adding that the dead were all from sub-Saharan Africa.

Source(s): AFP
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