At least 34 migrants are missing in the sinking of a boat off the Tunisian coast. This was stated by a spokesman for the court of Sfax, in the central part of Tunisia, specifying that there were 38 migrants on board the boat, bound for Italy: four of them were rescued. The Tunisian court has opened an investigation into the shipwreck, which occurred in the same area where a boat sank on Wednesday, killing at least 5 people.
Over the course of the day, the Italian Coast Guard and NGO ships said they had rescued a total of about a thousand migrants aboard various boats from North Africa. Among these there are also the 190 people rescued in the night between Thursday and Friday by the Geo Barents, the ship of Doctors Without Borders. On the Geo Barents, and on one of the two dinghies with which the rescued people were transhipped, there was also the Post journalist Luca Misculin, who has been reporting on the activities of the Geo Barents for a week with the podcast La nave. Here you can listen to today’s episode, which recounts Thursday night’s rescue operation.
