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17 Bangladeshis killed in Tunisia shipwreck: Red Crescent

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Reuters
22 July, 2021, 09:45 am
Last modified: 22 July, 2021, 11:38 am

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17 Bangladeshis killed in Tunisia shipwreck: Red Crescent

The boat set off from Libya's Zuwara towards Europe

Reuters
22 July, 2021, 09:45 am
Last modified: 22 July, 2021, 11:38 am
Photo: Collected
Photo: Collected

At least 17 Bangladeshi migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy from Libya, while more than 380 were rescued by the coastguard, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Wednesday.

The boat had set off from Zuwara, on Libya's northwest coast, carrying migrants from Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Mali and Bangladesh, the humanitarian organisation said.

"17 Bengali died and more than 380 other migrants rescued in a boat that set off from Libya's Zuwara towards Europe," Red Crescent official Mongi Slim said.

In recent months, several people have drowned off the Tunisian coast, with an increase in the frequency of attempted crossings to Europe from Tunisia and Libya towards Italy as the weather has improved.

Hundreds of thousands of people have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing in recent years, many of them fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.

Arrivals in Italy, one of the main migrant routes into Europe, had been falling in recent years, but numbers picked up again in 2021.

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