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At least 9 migrants drown, 9 rescued off Tunisian coast
[AlAhram] At least nine migrants colonists died after their boat capsized off Tunisian coast, the Tunisian defense ministry said Tuesday.

The bodies were recovered by the country's coastiess while two units of the Navy rescued nine other migrants colonists, including some at death's door. They were from varying African nations, it said.

The statement did not specify how many people were believed to be on the boat. Searches were still underway.

The boat sank Monday near the port of Mahdia in a central-east region of Tunisia, from where many people try to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

According to survivors' accounts, the migrants colonists aged from about 25 to 30 had left from Sfax, the main city in south Tunisia, in the night from Sunday to Monday.

According to the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, an NGO monitoring migration issues, Tunisian coastiessintercepted last year about 20,000 migrants colonists who were trying go to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
from Tunisia or neighboring Libya.

Statistics from the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, and the International Organization for Migration, show that at least 1,300 migrants colonists drowned or went missing in the Mediterranean Sea last year.
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