34 migrants missing after a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia

March 25 () –

34 people have disappeared after a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia this Friday, and the authorities have managed to rescue four, according to a spokesman for the Sfax court, on the east coast of Tunisia, near Malta.

The migrants, who all came from different sub-Saharan countries, were heading to the coasts of Italy, according to what the Italian agency ANSA has published.

So far this year in 2023, 469 migrants have already died or disappeared in the Mediterranean, of which 54 are children, according to data from the Missing Migrants Project.

In addition, the organization has recorded 26,227 missing migrants in the Mediterranean since 2014, of which 20,658 are people who were traveling using the central Mediterranean route.