Tunisia says major migrant trafficker arrested ...Kuwait

Tunisia has arrested a man suspected being the organiser of a ring that smuggled migrants across the Mediterranean, including an attempted crossing in which 20 people drowned, authorities said. The North African country, which lies just 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the Italian island of Lampedusa, has long been a favoured steppingstone for migrants attempting the perilous sea journey to Europe. Investigators in Tunisia's second city of Sfax had "arrested the organiser of clandestine crossings, who was wanted in 24 cases and had been sentenced to 79 years in prison", the national guard said Thursday on Facebook. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi commended

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