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64 dead as migrants' boat sinks

TUNIS (TUNISIA): Up to 64 North African migrants were feared dead on Monday night after their boat sank en route from Tunisia to southern Italy, according to Tunisian authorities. Twenty-one bodies had been found and the Tunisian coast guard said it had picked up only 11 survivors from the 75 migrants who boarded the vessel on Sunday evening. Officials said the boat sank off the town of Chott Meriem, 150 km south-east of Tunis. Most of the dead were believed to have been Moroccans, part of a wave of several hundred migrants who have headed for the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in recent days. The boat reportedly broke into two a few hours after leaving from a beach in the country's eastern coast. Coast guard launches searched the area for survivors.

— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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