Over 50 migrants reported drowned or disappeared off Tunisia coast; 33 saved

Over 50 migrants have drowned or disappeared off the coast of Tunisia, while 33 others have been saved, the Tunisian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.

More than 50 migrants have drowned or disappeared off the coast of Tunisia, while 33 others were rescued by workers from an oil platform, the Tunisian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. Ministry spokesperson Mohamed Zekri said that the boat carrying migrants capsized Monday off Sfax, on Tunisia's southeast coast. He said that personal on the oil platform who saw the boat going under alerted authorities, and navy units were sent in to search the water for missing passengers. Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesperson for the Mediterranean coordination office of the International Organisation for Migration, said on Twitter that the 33 survivors were all from Bangladesh. The boat departed from Zawara, Libya, on Sunday, he said.