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13 July 2019 The number of bodies found following the sinking of a rubber boat, carrying over 80 migrants, which took place last July 1 off the Tunisian coast of Zarzis, rose to 72.
This was announced by the spokesman of the Tunisian Coast Guard for the southern district, Rachid Bouzidi, to the Tunisian press agency Tap, specifying that most of the bodies were found on the coasts of Zarzis, Djerba and El Ketf in Ben Guerdane.
A dozen migrants are still missing.
Their decaying bodies were transferred to the Gabes hospital for genetic analysis and then for burial in Gabes or Zarzis, in the cemetery reserved for migrants, already saturated due to the great frequency of shipwrecks of migrants departing from the Libyan coast. occurred in that stretch of the Mediterranean.
According to the statements of one of the survivors collected by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on board the dinghy, which left the Libyan coast of Zwara towards Italy, there were 86 people.
Only three survivors.