Around 20 people were said to be
missing on Monday after a migrant boat shipwreck that left one
person confirmed dead, according to survivors.
Fishermen rescued the group of 34 migrants and refugees in the
Italian search and rescue (SAR) area after their 7-m boat went
down.
The rescuers also recovered the body of a man.
The survivors - 26 men, 8 women and 6 minors, from Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea, the Comoro Islands and Sudan -
and the victim were subsequently transferred onto a Coast Guard
vessel and taken to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
The group had departed from Sfax in Tunisia on Saturday evening,
and survivors told rescuers they had paid between 500 and 600
euros for the crossing.
The Coast Guard and Finance Police were searching the shipwreck
area for the missing.
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