17 migrants drown off Tunisia cost: Red Crescent

TUNIS, 23 July 2021, (TON): Tunisian Red Crescent said that at least 17 Bengali migrants drowned off Tunisia’s coast while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

Munji Salim of the Tunisian Red Crescent said in a statement “coast guards, in cooperation with the Libyan Navy, also managed to rescue 366 other migrants after their boat broke out off Tunisia’s Zarzis coast.”

The migrant boat set off from Libyan shores to Europe with around 400 migrants, mostly from Bangladesh, on board along with migrants from Syria, Mali, Eritrea and Sudan.

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