At least 39 people died on Tuesday when two boats carrying irregular migrants sank off the coast of Sfax in southern Tunisia.
The official Tunisian News Agency quoted Houssam al-Din Jebali, a spokesman for the Tunisian National Guard, as saying the naval unit of the National Guard recovered the bodies of 14 migrants, including nine women, four children and a man, and rescued 140 others. The migrants were of different African nationalities, including two Tunisians.
In a separate incident, 5 African migrants also reportedly died trying to reach Canary Islands
WADR’s Patrick Sallia reports.
