Ferid Ben Jha, spokesperson for the courts of Monastir and Mehdia disclosed this Thursday, in a statement given to radio, that 3 bodies were retrieved from the sinking of a fishing boat about 29 miles from the coast of Monastir.
He announced that 3 other people were rescued and the search continued to save another individual.
Houssem Eddine Jebabli, spokesperson for the National Guard, for his part, announced that a joint unit of the National Navy and the Maritime Guard and a helicopter were mobilized to search for missing fishermen.
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