Tunisia coast guard recovers eight bodies of migrants whose boat sank

The boat, which set off early on ⁠Thursday with 15 mostly young people on board, sank ​off the Tunisian coast this weekend, and so far only ​one person had been rescued, the head of a migrant rights group said on Saturday.

Tunisian coast guard forces recovered the bodies of eight Tunisian migrants whose boat sank ​at the weekend en route to Italy, while ‌the search continued for six others still missing, a National Guard spokesperson said on Sunday.

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