Boat sinks off Tunisian coast, 48 migrants killed
According to the Tunisian defence ministry, 48 migrants drowned after their ship sank off at the southern coast of Tunisia, the rescue operations are underway.
More than 60 migrants have been rescued so far by the coastguards.
“The coastguard and the navy continue their search with the support of a military plane,” Al-Jazeera quoted the Tunisian interior ministry as saying in a statement.
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A survivor recounted the horror saying that there were around 180 migrants in the ship, which sank due to a leak, adding that the boat measured at least nine metres long.
Another survivor claimed when the ship started sinking, the captain abandoned the vessel to escape arrest.
“I survived by clinging to wood for nine hours,” the second survivor said at a hospital in Sfax in southern Tunisia, where dozens of people are looking for their near and dear ones.
Security officials later confirmed that the ship had around 180 migrants on board, with 80 of them hailing from African countries.
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