More boats sink off Tunisia’s coast, killing 29 asylum seekers
Sgt4succsess SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM More boats sink off Tunisia’s coast, killing 29 asylum seekers Latest deaths come as Italian media report that a record 2,000 refugees and migrants had arrived in Lampedusa within 24 hours. ADVERTISEMENT Tunisia’s coast guard recovered 10 bodies from a migrant boat which sank near the coast, the second vessel to sink within hours off Tunisia, bringing the death toll to 29, according to a security official. Houssem Jebabli, a national guard official, said that the boat sank off the coast of Mahdia, without giving further details. ADVERTISEMENT Earlier on Sunday, a human rights group said at least 19 refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa had drowned off the coast of Tunisia while trying to cross the Mediterranean and reach Italy. ADVERTISEMENT Romdhane Ben Amor, an official at the Forum for Social and Economic Rights