Tunisian navy rescues over 170 migrants at sea
By AFP - Jun 28,2021 - Last updated at Jun 28,2021
BEN GUERDANE, Tunisia Tunisia s defence ministry said on Sunday that its navy had rescued 178 migrants who were trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to reach Europe.
Two bodies were recovered and 178 migrants rescued during three operations off Tunisia s south coast, a ministry statement said.
The migrants, who the ministry said were from Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Ivory Coast, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Mali and Ethiopia, had set off from the Libyan port of Zuwara overnight Friday to Saturday.
Tunisian authorities on Thursday intercepted 267 would-be migrants who had also begun the sea crossing from Libya, most of them Bangladeshis, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
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