Tunisia: Death toll rises to 24 after four boats capsize ...Kuwait

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The number of people killed after their boats capsized late last month during an attempt to leave Tunisia for Europe has risen to 24, a judicial source said on Wednesday. Four boats capsized off the coast of the central Tunisian port city of Sfax on the night of April 22-23. While 97 people were rescued, 24 have now been found dead, including women and children, said Sfax court spokesman Mourad Turki. Authorities previously said they had recovered 17 bodies. The morgue of Sfax hospital, the only one in the region to receive the bodies of migrants, has taken delivery of 92 such corpses in recent months; which are mostly of sub-Saharan Africans. It is struggling to

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