The our bodies had been handed over to the regional hospital within the metropolis of Sfax, Prosecutor Faouzi Masmoudi instructed The Associated Press.
They had been discovered early Sunday and appeared to have drowned a number of days earlier, he stated. Asked about on-line references to a new child child being among the many lifeless, he stated that solely grownup our bodies had been discovered.
Tunisian authorities imagine the individuals set out from Tunisia or neighbouring Libya on a ship.
The authorities are investigating what occurred and in search of any details about different passengers.
Thousands of persons are believed to have crossed from Tunisia into Europe this 12 months. Many are fleeing battle or poverty elsewhere in Africa.
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But a rising quantity are Tunisians, younger individuals or complete households whose nation is battling a protracted and worsening financial disaster and political rigidity.
Many die on the harmful journey. The International Organisation for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project estimates some 2,000 individuals have died or gone lacking within the Mediterranean this 12 months, most on the central Mediterranean route that features Tunisia.
