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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 04, 2023
Bangladeshi migrants among 43 drown in shipwreck off Tunisia

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Reuters
03 July, 2021, 07:30 pm
Last modified: 04 July, 2021, 09:52 am

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Bangladeshi migrants among 43 drown in shipwreck off Tunisia

"The navy rescued 84 migrants and 43 others drowned in a boat that set off from Libya's Zuwara towards Europe”

Reuters
03 July, 2021, 07:30 pm
Last modified: 04 July, 2021, 09:52 am
A group of Tunisian migrants arrive on a rubber boat after being rescued by the Tunisian coast guard off the coast of Bizerte, Tunisia, on October 12, 2017. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
A group of Tunisian migrants arrive on a rubber boat after being rescued by the Tunisian coast guard off the coast of Bizerte, Tunisia, on October 12, 2017. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

 At least 43 migrants including Bnagladeshis drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent told Reuters on Saturday.

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

In recent months, several drowning incidents have occurred 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.

"The navy rescued 84 migrants and 43 others drowned in a boat that set off from Libya's Zuwara towards Europe," Red Crescent official Mongi Slim said.

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.

Almost 19,800 migrants have arrived since the beginning of the year against just over 6,700 in the same period last year, Italian interior Ministry figures show.

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