A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Tunisia, a North African country, with about 50 people missing. Another 33 were rescued.
The Tunisian Defense Ministry said the incident took place off the coast of the East coast.
The boat, which departed from the Libyan port of Jawara, was reported to be carrying up to 90 people.
Immigrants who want to go to Europe are often choosing this dangerous Mediterranean route over Libya.
Drowning incidents have happened off the Tunisian coast in recent weeks, On Monday afternoon, navy forces rescued another 113 migrants from Bangladesh, Morocco, and Sub-Saharan Africa as their boat was about to sink off the coast of Tunisia, according to Tunisia’s official TAP news agency.
Even earlier this month a boat carrying 17 people sank only two of them were able to be rescued.
But as the weather has improved, the frequency of voyages to Europe from Tunisia and Libya towards Italy has increased.
According to the Tunisian Defense Ministry, more than 50 migrants drowned or vanished off the coast of Tunisia, while 33 others were rescued by employees from an oil rig.
According to him, workers on the oil platforms who observed the boat sink contacted authorities, and navy troops were dispatched to search the water for missing passengers.
Flavio Di Giacomo, a representative for the International Organization for Migration’s Mediterranean coordination office, claimed on Twitter that 33 survivors were all from Bangladesh. According to him, the boat left Zawara, Libya, on Sunday.
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The nationalities of those that died are unknown at the time. The survivors stated that the boat carried roughly 90 individuals when it left Libya, according to a spokeswoman for the International Organization for Migration in Tunisia, Riadh Kadhi.
Libya is a common departure point for migrants heading to Europe via the hazardous Mediterranean Sea journey.
At least 60 migrants have died in similar events off the Tunisian coast in recent weeks.
According to the UNHCR, fewer than 23,500 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to reach Europe this year, with the majority of newcomers arriving in Italy and Spain from Tunisia and Algeria.
The agency estimates that 633 people have died or simply disappeared while traveling this year
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