Twenty Seven Migrants Missing After Boat Sinks off Tunisia, 13 Dead

TUNIS (Reuters) – The bodies of 13 Sudanese migrants have been recovered and 27 others are missing after a boat sunk on Wednesday off the coast of Tunisia after setting off from Sfax, a Tunisian judicial official told Reuters on Thursday.

The boat contained 42 people, all of them Sudanese, and two people were rescued, the official added.

(Reporting by Tarek Amara; Writing by Tala Ramadan; Editing by Alison Williams)

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