We are dying by the minute," a Nigerian who wanted to be identified only by his first name, George, told AFP. On Tuesday Libya's interior ministry said the bodies of five African migrants had been found near Tunisia's border. The group of about 140 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are the latest to be taken to Tunisia's borderlands with Libya or Algeria, according to border guards, migrants and NGO workers who reported previous cases. At its closest point, near Sfax, Tunisia is only about 130 kilometres from the Italian island of Lampedusa. Around the same time, Libyan border guards also said they rescued dozens of migrants left in the desert by Tunisian authorities without water and food.
