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10 June 2020Dramatic shipwreck in front of the Tunisian coast, off the city of Sfax: dozens of migrants are dead and missing, sinking a precarious boat with which they wanted to cross the Mediterranean and arrive in Europe. The local press reports.Most of the victims were women, said Samir Maatoug, director of forensic medicine at Habib Bourguiba university hospital: an autopsy showed that 19 out of 22 bodies belong to black skinned women, probably of Ivorian origin. The other three bodies are those of a girl and a boy aged between 2 and 3, also in black skin, and an adult. The latter could be the captain of the boat. One of the women who were victims of the shipwreck was pregnant.
On board 52 people including 7 Tunisians, more than twenty Ivorians and other African citizens, who had embarked on a makeshift vehicle with a maximum capacity of 20 seats on the night between Monday and Tuesday bound for Italy.