TUNIS (Reuters) -At least 12 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy on Friday, a civil safety official advised Reuters.
The official added that the 12 our bodies that had been recovered off the coast of Nabeul had been largely of Syrian migrants. A search was nonetheless below manner.
In latest months, a number of folks have drowned off the (*12*) coast, with a rise in the frequency of tried crossings to Europe from Tunisia and Libya in direction of Italy.
Hundreds of hundreds of folks have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing in latest years, many of them fleeing battle and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.
Arrivals in Italy, one of the primary migrant routes into Europe, had been falling in latest years, however numbers picked up once more in 2021.
(Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Alex Richardson)
