{"id":405987,"date":"2021-07-03T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=405987"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:41:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T14:41:19","slug":"at-least-43-migrants-drown-in-shipwreck-off-tunisia-red-crescent-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/at-least-43-migrants-drown-in-shipwreck-off-tunisia-red-crescent-says\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 43 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunisia, Red Crescent says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">TUNIS (SONNA): At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent told Reuters on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The boat had set off from Zuwara, on Libya&#8217;s northwest coast, carrying migrants from Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Bangladesh, the humanitarian organization said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">In recent months, several drowning incidents have occurred off the Tunisian coast, with an increase in the frequency of attempted crossings to Europe from Tunisia and Libya towards Italy as the weather has improved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;The navy rescued 84 migrants and 43 others drowned in a boat that set off from Libya&#8217;s Zuwara towards Europe,\u201d Red Crescent official Mongi Slim said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SpacingContainer__container___2kvuUN SpacingContainer__max-width___1aBoiA\">\n<div class=\"AdSlot__container___vv9J1U\">\n<div class=\"AdSlot__inner___1TrdcP\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">Hundreds of thousands of people have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing in recent years, many of them fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">Arrivals in Italy &#8211; one of the main migrant routes into Europe &#8211; had been falling in recent years, but numbers picked up again in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">Almost 19,800 migrants have arrived since the beginning of the year against just over 6,700 in the same period last year, Italian interior Ministry figures show.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS (SONNA): At least 43 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, the Tunisian Red Crescent told Reuters on Saturday. 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