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Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars

Tunisia retrieves 41 drowned migrants as death toll soars

COASTGUARDS have retrieved 41 bodies from Tunisian waters, a national guard official said, raising the number of victims of migrant shipwrecks off the country's coast to 210 in 10 days. The bodies were in a decomposed state, suggesting they had been in the water for several days, said Houssem Eddine Jebabli told Reuters. The cumulative total of fatalities was unprecedented over such a short period, he said. Numbers of boats carrying migrants - most from sub-Saharan Africa, Syria and Sudan - trying to reach Italy from Tunisia have risen sharply in recent months, in part due to a crackdown on…
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