| Published Mon, June 4th 2018 at 08:55, Updated June 4th 2018 at 09:04 GMT +3Search for surviving refugees on a sinking Tunisia boat ongoing. [Courtesy]At least 48 migrants died after their boat capsized off the eastern coast of Tunisia, the Tunisian government says. The latest boat to go down off Tunisia was packed with about 180 people, about 100 whom were Tunisian, the country's interior ministry said. One survivor told Reuters that the captain had abandoned the boat after it started sinking to escape arrest by the coast guard. Unemployed Tunisians and other Africans often seek to cross the Mediterranean sea in makeshift boats from Tunisia to Sicily in Italy.

Source: Standard Digital June 04, 2018 05:59 UTC