The Tunisian Coast Guard Unit This Thursday, nine bodies of immigrants were recovered after the shipwreck of his boat in the Mediterranean off the country’s coast. Another 27 people were rescued “in difficult weather conditions,” according to the security body.
In a press release posted on their Facebook page, they explained that They intervened in the area after receiving an urgent alert about a boat that was damaged and sinking off the coast of central Tunisia. After being rescued, those affected “received first aid before being transferred to the port to receive additional medical care.”
The spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office in the Monastir and Mahdia courts, Farid Ben Jaha, has told a local radio that among the rescued immigrants there are eight women. The boat left the city of Jebinianain Sfax and sank off the coast of Chebba, in Mahdia, where the search for several missing people is still continuing.
Since the beginning of the year, 949 people died or disappeared on the Central Mediterranean route that leaves North Africa towards Europe, according to data from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). Arrivals in Italy decreased by 60% in 2024 compared to last year.
In July 2023, the European Union signed a memorandum on financial stability and migration control with Tunisia. This year, Libya that is once again the main starting point from this migratory route, from which a total of 37,667 people left, of the more than 60,400 who have reached Italy so far this year, according to UNHCR.
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