Coast Guard spokesman Hossam El-Din Jebali confirmed in a statement that 24 migrants have been rescued while they are still in searches underway for the remaining missing off the coast of the governorate of Sfax (south-east), where the dinghy sank on Sunday night. The Coast Guard confirmed that it had rescued “on the morning of 24 May 16 pedestrians of different African and Asian nationalities whose rubber dinghy, exploited in a process of irregular migration, it sank about six nautical miles south-east of the island of Kerkennah ”of the Governorate of Sfax. One body, according to the statement.
With the improvement of weather conditions it is in increase in the number of illegal immigration attempts by Tunisians and other nationalities of sub-Saharan Africa from the Tunisian coast to the European coast. Tunisian coast guard forces rescued 44 illegal immigrants and recovered three bodies, while ten are still missing after their boat sank off Tunisia’s east coast, an official AFP spokesman said Friday.
On Saturday, the Tunisian Navy announced the rescue of 81 migrants, including a woman, after leaving the Libyan coast in a rickety boat.
Meanwhile, Tunisian authorities announced in early May that the bodies of 24 migrants had been found after their boats sank off the central eastern coast of Tunisia.
