Eleven dead and over 40 missing in shipwreck off Tunisia [updated 09/08/2023] Forty-one migrants died when their boat sank

Eleven migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have died while another 44 are missing, after the terrible shipwreck that took place at the end of the week off the Tunisian coast in front of Sfax. The news was released by the Tunis authorities.

[updated 09/08/2023] Forty-one migrants died in the sinking of their boat, which set sail from Sfax in Tunisia: the boat capsized and sank while sailing in the Sicilian channel. This latest tragedy was told by the four survivors, three men and a woman, who were rescued by the motor vessel Rimona which transferred them to the Coast Guard patrol boat CP327.
The 4 castaways, originally from the Ivory Coast and Guinea Konakry, were then landed in Lampedusa.