The bodies were recovered by the country's coastiess while two units of the Navy rescued nine other
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
According to the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, an NGO monitoring migration issues, Tunisian coastiessintercepted last year about 20,000
...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