Death toll from migrant shipwreck off Tunisia rises to 11
TUNIS: The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia last week has risen to 11, most of them Tunisians, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, TAP state news agency said on Sunday.
It added that five more bodies were recovered on Saturday night by Coast Guard and Navy units as part of a search operation for migrants who went missing in the wake of a shipwreck off Chebba, Mahdia, on Sept 6.
The coast guard rescued 14 migrants who had been on the overcrowded boat, which sank off Chebba town in Mahdia region.