Tunisia’s National Guard said Sunday it had recovered 12 bodies from the sea after a boat carrying migrants sank off the country’s southeastern coast, with two people still missing.
The boat was carrying 15 people, only one of whom was rescued after it sank some 14 nautical miles off the shore of Zarzis on Friday night.
“Search operations resulted in the recovery of three bodies yesterday and nine bodies today, bringing the total to 12,” the National Guard said in a statement.
Searches for the two missing passengers were ongoing, it added.
On Saturday night, residents in Ben Guerdane — the marginalised city near the Libyan border where 14 of the migrants were from — staged protests, blocking roads and setting tyres on fire over the shipwreck.
