Eleven bodies recovered after migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
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- Al-Monitor
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Tunisia's coastguard has recovered eleven bodies after a boat carrying migrants sank over the weekend while traveling toward Italy. The National Guard reported on Sunday that three people remain unaccounted for. The vessel departed early Thursday with 15 passengers, most of whom were young people from the Ben Guerdane area in southeastern Tunisia. According to the head of a migrant rights group, only one person was rescued alive after spending 48 hours adrift before being picked up by a commercial vessel.
The Tunisian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the passengers included seven members of one family and a man with his pregnant wife. In Ben Guerdane, dozens of young people gathered on Saturday to demand faster search operations, leading police to use teargas to disperse the crowd. Search efforts continued with the support of the military, civil protection teams, and two helicopters.
The central Mediterranean route is recognized as one of the deadliest migration paths for those traveling from Africa and the Middle East to Europe. Human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, recently stated that a migration agreement between Tunisia and the European Union has normalized abuses against asylum seekers. These groups have called for the EU to suspend funding for border control activities involving Tunisian security forces.
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- Outlets of this lean provided a factual account of the casualties and the subsequent protests, while including context regarding human rights criticisms of the EU Tunisia migration agreement.
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