A total of 27 migrants natives of sub-Saharan Africa have been killed or are missing after two shipwrecks, this Friday and Saturday, off Tunisiareported a spokesman for the court of sfax, in the center of the country. These two incidents bring to more than a hundred the number of people who died trying to reach Europe from the North African country, according to a balance Prepared by Agence France Presse.
According to testimonies collected by the court, 37 migrants They had left the north of the town of Sfax aboard two boats when one of them sank on Friday afternoon, the spokesman said. Fauzi Musmidi. A total of 22 of them are missing and alone 17 who were in the second boat have been rescued. A second shipwreck occurred on Saturday morningafter which they were able to recover “four corpses” on a beach north of Sfax, while others three passengers they disappeared. In this case, according to the same sources, a total of 36 people They could be rescued alive. In this case, the incident occurred closer of the coast.
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Musmidi has reported that the prosecution has launched an investigation to “find the organizers of these attempts to cross, which have forced them to embark on iron boats, without offering the minimum security conditions, but which are easier to manufacture than of wood”. The previous similar incident dates back just a few days, on March 26, when the bodies of 29 sub-Saharan Africans were recovered after three shipwrecks. Just 11 people they were saved.
So far this year, the National Guard Tunisian has intercepted “14,406 people, 13,138 of them from sub-Saharan Africa, the rest from Tunisia. This is a figure five times higher than that registered during the first three months of last year.