MARITIME

25 May 2022: Off the Coast of Tunisia

Seventy-six migrants were presumed dead when their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia, the United Nations migration agency reported. The boat departed Libya carrying around 100 people. 24 were rescued. Tunisian Coast Guard rescued those people but only found one person dead in the water. They said the others were presumed dead, as they had not lifesaving devices and could not be found.