Tunisian authorities recovered the bodies of four people believed to be African migrants, including a pregnant woman, off the coast of Kerkennah Island in the Mediterranean. 9News
, including a pregnant woman, off the coast of Kerkennah Island in the Mediterranean, the regional prosecutor said yesterday.
The bodies were handed over to the regional hospital in the city of Sfax, Prosecutor Faouzi Masmoudi told The Associated Press. They were found early Sunday and appeared to have drowned several days earlier, he said. Asked about online references to a newborn baby being among the dead, he said that only adult bodies were found.Tunisian authorities believe the people set out from Tunisia or neighbouring Libya on a boat.Thousands of people are believed to have crossed from Tunisia into Europe this year. Many are fleeing conflict or poverty elsewhere in Africa.
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