TUNIS (Reuters) -Seventy 5 people had been lacking after a crowded boat of migrants sank off Tunisia on Wednesday, the International Organization for Migration mentioned and a safety official mentioned, because the numbers risking the damaging crossing to Europe enhance.
The IOM mentioned 24 people had been rescued from the boat, which departed from the seashores of Zawara in Libya and sank off the coast of Sfax.
A Tunisian safety official informed Reuters that the coastguard had recovered a physique as they proceed to seek for 75 others who had been lacking.
In latest months, dozens of people have drowned off the Tunisian coast, with a rise within the frequency of tried crossings from Tunisia and Libya in direction of Italy.
Hundreds of hundreds of people have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing in recent times.
Figures from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed that greater than 123,000 migrants arrived in Italy in 2021, in comparison with greater than 95,000 in 2020.
(Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Toby Chopra)
