Five migrants die, 7 missing after boat capsized off Tunisia
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15 August, 2023, 08:55 am
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Five migrants died and seven others were missing while 23 were rescued after a boat capsized off Tunisia's Sfax
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Five migrants died and seven others were missing while 23 were rescued after a boat capsized off Tunisia's Sfax, state news agency (TAP) reported on Monday.
"Coastguard units in Sfax recovered the bodies of 5 migrants and rescued 23 people, while 7 others are missing, after boat carrying mostly Tunisians but also sub-Saharan Africans sank off Sfax's Sidi Mansour," it said.
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