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72 bodies recovered from sunken migrant boat off Tunisia coast

Published on: Friday 12 July 2019

This brings the number of bodies retrieved so far in the incident to 72, according to Mongi Slim, the head of the Tunisian Red Crescent branch in the southern province of Medenine. The boat sank off ...

News source: https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/72-bodies-recovered-from-sunken-migrant-boat-off-tunisia-coast-29097983

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72 bodies recovered from sunken migrant boat off Tunisia coast