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At least 5 Tunisian migrants dead and 7 missing in shipwreck | Africanews

Five Tunisian migrants are dead and seven other people are missing after the sinking of a makeshift boat that left the coast of Sfax in central-eastern Tunisia on Monday, AFP learned from judicial sources.

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