Dozens feared dead as migrant boat capsizes off Tunisia – BBC News

Dozens of migrants are opinion to possess died after their boat capsized within the Mediterranean off the flee of Tunisia.

No lower than 50 folks died within the incident, with 16 survivors, the UN’s International Organization for Migration says.

Nevertheless Tunisian drawl media voice that 70 migrants drowned about 74km (46 miles) off Sfax, south of the capital Tunis.

Tunisian officers reportedly think regarding the ship space off from Zuwara in Libya.

Most efficient three our bodies possess reportedly been recovered from the scene up to now, and the navy is procuring for others.

An announcement from the Tunisian defence ministry reportedly talked about the navy had despatched a ship as rapidly as it heard regarding the incident and got here across a fishing boat picking up survivors. All 16 possess now been moved to the navy ship.

The passengers are understood to had been from sub-Saharan Africa.

Thousands of migrants strive to inferior the Mediterranean to Europe every yr.

Nevertheless and they also inch in poorly maintained and overcrowded ships, and masses possess died on the inch.

In January, a UN voice talked about six migrants died crossing the Mediterranean every day in 2018.