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Tunisian navy rescues over 170 migrants at sea
2021-06-28
[AlAhram] According to the UN, at least 760 people have died trying to make the Mediterranean crossing between January 1 and May 31

Tunisia's defence ministry said Sunday that its navy had rescued 178 migrants colonists who were trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to reach Europe.

Two bodies were recovered and 178 migrants colonists rescued during three operations off Tunisia's south coast, a ministry statement said.

The migrants colonists, who the ministry said were from Tunisia, Syria, Ivory Coast, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Mali and Æthiopia, had set off from the Libyan port of Zuwara overnight Friday to Saturday.

Tunisian authorities on Thursday intercepted 267 would-be migrants colonists who had also begun the sea crossing from Libya, most of them Bangladeshis, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

Red Islamic Thingy official Mongi Slim warned Thursday that centres set up to house migrants colonists in southern Tunisia were full.

According to IOM figures, more than 1,000 migrants colonists hoping to reach Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
had set off from Libya and ended up in Tunisia since January, and the number of departures is rising.

There have been 11,000 departures from January to April 2021 from Libya, over 70 percent more than in the same period last year, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR.

The agency said the "deteriorating" conditions of migrants colonists in Libya were pushing many to make the dangerous crossing from the North African coast to Europe.
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