21 migrants drown off Tunisia's coast
Rescue crews have located three survivors and are still searching for the boat's remaining 17 passengers.
At least 21 Italy-bound migrants, including a baby, died Friday after their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia in the Mediterranean Sea.
“The boat sank during a trip that started late on Thursday from Sfax,” Mouard Mechri, director of Tunisia’s civil protection service, told Reuters on Friday. He said the coast guard had recovered 21 bodies and the search was continuing.
The boat set sail from the port city of Sfax with 41 people on board. The Tunisian National Guard told The Associated Press that the coast guard and civil protection divers had rescued just three survivors and were searching for more.
