Thirteen dead as Sudanese migrant ship sinks off Tunisian coast
The bodies of 13 Sudanese migrants have been recovered and 27 others are missing after a boat sank on Wednesday off the coast of Tunisia having set off from Sfax, a Tunisian judicial official said on Thursday.
The boat was carrying 42 people, all of them Sudanese, and two people were rescued, the judge Farid Ben Jha said.
It is the latest disaster to hit migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe.
Sudan plunged into a civil war about 10 months ago, forcing at least nine million people to flee their homes.
Most of them have taken refuge either in safer parts of the country, or in neighbouring states.
More than 2,270 migrants died in 2023 trying to cross the central Mediterranean, a 60% increase on the previous year, according to the International Organization for Migration.
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