The Tunisian coastguard Friday recovered the body of a young girl thought to have drowned when two vessels carrying migrants sank in the Mediterranean, a journalist working with AFP said. A coastguard official later told AFP that the child was a girl. She was probably from Cameroon, as more than 200 Cameroonians had been rescued over the past two days, the coastguard undertaking the operation said. Local court spokesman Faouzi Masmoudi told AFP that two boats carrying migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sank off Sfax on Wednesday. The bodies of five of the children were later found, the coastguard official said, including one Malian and one Senegalese.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 03, 2023 05:57 UTC