22/07/2019

Tunisia toils to find final resting place for drowned migrants

A putrid odour lingers outside a morgue in Tunisia's coastal city of Gabes as dozens of bodies of would-be migrants to Europe pulled out of the sea await burial. A string of deadly shipwrecks since May have left the North African country overwhelmed with bodies and struggling to find them a final resting place. More than 80 drowned migrants have been retrieved from Tunisian waters -- most of them victims of a deadly July 1 shipwreck that left only three survivors. Fished out of the sea ......
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