TUNIS: Tunisian coast guard forces recovered the bodies of eight Tunisian migrants whose boat sank at the weekend en route to Italy, while the search continued for six others still missing, a National Guard spokesperson said on Sunday. Coast guard, military and civil protection teams, backed by two helicopters, continued to search for the missing migrants. The boat, which set off early on Thursday with 15 mostly young people on board, sank off the Tunisian coast this weekend, and so far only one person had been rescued, the head of a migrant rights group said on Saturday.
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August 23, 2026 13:54
TUNIS: Tunisian coast guard forces recovered the bodies of eight Tunisian migrants whose boat sank at the weekend en route to Italy, while the search continued for six others still missing, a National Guard spokesperson said on Sunday.
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