File: Photo handout taken in a search and rescue zone in the Mediterranean sea, June 9, 2018, by ‘SOS Mediterranee’ NGO shows migrants being rescued.
A boat carrying illegal migrants from Tunisia to Italy capsized on Saturday leaving one person dead, Tunisian authorities said, adding that six other people were missing at sea.
The boat sank off the coast of Thyna near the port of Sfax in the morning, Moez Triaa, a spokesman for Tunisia’s civil protection unit, told AFP.The body of one of them was retrieved from the sea while search operations are underway for six other passengers, Triaa added. He said that authorities arrested 11 people who were aboard the vessel, while two others managed to escape.
Meanwhile a spokesman for the National Guard told Mosaique FM, a private radio station, that its forces had arrested 223 people this week who tried to cross the Mediterranean illegally to Europe.Thousands of young Tunisians make the often deadly sea crossing to Europe each year, driven by high unemployment at home.
According to Europe’s coast guard service Frontex the number of illegal migrants trying to make their way to Europe fell by 85 percent in April compared to the previous month.DOWNLOAD THE PUNCH NEWS APP NOW ON
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