[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] At least 17 Bengali migrants colonists drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italia from Libya, while more than 380 were rescued by the coastguard, the Tunisian Red Islamic Thingy said on Wednesday.
The boat had set off from Zuwara, on Libya's northwest coast, carrying migrants colonists from Syria, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
, Mali and Bangladesh, the humanitarian organization said.
"17 Bengali died and more than 380 other migrants colonists rescued in a boat that set off from Libya's Zuwara towards Europe," Red Islamic Thingy official Mongi Slim said, Rooters reported.
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