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The coast guard stops yet another boatload of undocumented immigrants trying to sail to Europe off the coast of Tunisia.

The coastguard has stopped 2,034 migrants since Wednesday, including nine Tunisians, and has recovered the bodies of seven more, according to the spokesman for the Tunisian National Guard on Thursday. After their boat capsized off Tunisia on Wednesday, a rights organization reported that five migrants drowned and another 28 were missing.

Images provided by the Italian Coast Guard show their boat saving 295 migrants from a sinking boat 90 miles off the Calabrian coast early this morning. According to statistics from the interior ministry, more than 20,000 migrants have arrived on Italian soil so far this year, compared to about 6,000 during the same time in 2022 and 2021.

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Five migrants drowned and 28 are missing off Tunisia, according to an NGO.

Five migrants of sub-Saharan origin drowned and 28 others were reported missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia, according to a human rights organization on Wednesday.

28 migrants are still missing, according to Romdhane Ben Amor of the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights, despite the fact that five migrants’ bodies were discovered and five others were saved (FTDES).

With 38 passengers, the majority of whom were from the Ivory Coast, he claimed the boat sank “because it was overloaded.”

In an effort to get to the Italian island of Lampedusa, the boat had departed from the Sfax coast.

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The sinking is the most recent such tragedy to occur in what is known as the world’s most dangerous migration route, the central Mediterranean.

It happens a month after Tunisian President Kais Saied made an upsetting speech in which he claimed that immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa were the instigators of a crime wave and part of a “plot” against Tunisia.

His remarks sparked anti-black migrant violence, and landlords evicted hundreds of people who are now camped out in Tunisian streets out of fear of fines.

Estimates place the number of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa in the 12 million-person nation of Tunisia at around 21,000.

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