Environment & Sustainability

16 migrant bodies recovered by Tunisian Coast Guard

In the last few days, Tunisian authorities have recovered the bodies of at least 16 migrants. On Monday, the coast guard said it had retrieved the bodies of four migrants.

The bodies of four migrants were recovered by the Tunisian coast guard after their boat sank off the coast of Sfax in Tunisia, a coast guard official told news agency .

It is not yet clear whether the boat carrying these four migrants was the one tweeted about by the organization Alarm Phone on Monday. According to Alarm Phone, a boat they believed had set off on Sunday night had gone missing in between Sfax and Lampedusa. It was also not reported how many people may have been traveling on board this boat.