Migrant boat sinks off Tunisian coast leaving 5 dead
Tuesday, 15 August 2023 A migrant boat sank off Tunisia's port city of Sfax, leaving five people dead and seven others missing, officials said Tuesday. The dead included a child.
At least six people died and dozens were rescued after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France capsized early on Saturday, local authorities said. Edward Baran reports.
41 migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa. A group of four people who survived the disaster told rescuers that they were on a boat that had set off from Sfax in Tunisia..