{"id":4898,"date":"2023-04-12T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2023-04-12T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:09:11","slug":"10-migrants-from-sub-saharan-africa-drown-off-tunisia-coastguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/10-migrants-from-sub-saharan-africa-drown-off-tunisia-coastguard\/","title":{"rendered":"10 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drown off Tunisia: coastguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis, April 12 (AFP\/APP): Ten migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned off Tunisia after their boat sank while trying to reach Europe, the coastguard said Wednesday, with at least 20 more reported missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Seventy-two migrants were rescued and 10 bodies recovered after Tuesday&#8217;s shipwreck&#8221; off the city of Sfax, said spokesman Houssem Jebabli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 20 and 30 more African migrants were listed as missing, Faouzi Masmoudi, the spokesman of a local court investigating the incident, told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jebabli said all those killed hailed from sub-Saharan African countries. The coastguard also said they had foiled another illegal sea crossing from the northern coast.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten migrants from sub-Saharan Africa drowned off Tunisia after their boat sank while trying to reach Europe, the coastguard said Wednesday, with at least 20 more reported missing.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}