At least 20 African migrants went missing today, Saturday, after their boat sank off the Tunisian city of Sfax while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official told Reuters
Fawzi Al-Masmoudi, a spokesman for the Sfax courts, said that the coast guard forces rescued 17 other people who were on the same boat off Sfax in the south of the country, two of whom were in critical condition
The official spokesman for the General Administration of the Tunisian National Guard stated that units belonging to the Naval Guard region in the center (the maritime regions of Sfax and Mahdia) were able, during the first three months of this year, to thwart 388 attempts to cross the maritime borders by stealth and rescue, and to rescue 13,259 transgressors 12,804 of South African nationalities Sahara
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