20 migrants missing after boat sinks off Tunisian coast
Twenty migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were missing after their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast as it tried to reach Europe, a spokesman for the court that investigates such cases said Saturday.
They were among 37 people aboard the vessel which had left from Tunisia’s coast and then “sank on Friday afternoon,” Faouzi Masmoudi, the court spokesman in Sfax city, told AFP, adding that 17 people were rescued.