21 bodies retrieved off Tunisia after migrant boat capsizes

At least 21 migrants died after the boat carrying them sank off the port city of Sfax in Tunisia, a security official said on Monday.

"Twenty-one bodies of migrants were recovered after their boat was shipwrecked on July 4, and 50 were rescued," said National Guard spokesman Houcem Eddine Jebabli.

It was the second such disaster in two days in the region. On Saturday, at least 43 migrants drowned and another 84 were rescued after a shipwreck off Tunisia's coastal community of Zarzis.