Migrant shipwreck off Tunisia leaves at least two dead, six missing

The NGO Sea Watch's ship Aurora rescued 23 survivors who had reached the Hasdrubal gas platform, 100 kilometres off the Tunisian coast, after their boat began sinking, and found five more survivors and two bodies, one of them a child's, still aboard the near-deflated dinghy itself, 28 people in total. Survivors told rescuers at least six people are still missing, among them three children from the same family. The migrants, from Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Pakistan and Nigeria, were disembarked in Lampedusa.

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