A maritime unit from the Maritime Border District of the National Guard in El Ketef of the delegation of Ben Guerdane, Medenine Governorate, rescued 68 illegal African migrants on board a fallen ship on Tuesday that crashed 3 miles from El Ketef port after leaving Libyan coast as part of clandestine migration to Europe, according to the spokesman for the southern region of the Maritime Guard, Colonel-Major, Rached Bouzidi.
According to the same source, among the immigrants whose classification process is currently underway under the health protocol to prevent the coronavirus and determine their nationality, one child died on board the boat, and a woman with a newborn also gave birth .
He added that the migrants were admitted to the port of El Ketef and that civil protection intervened to transfer the woman and her baby to Ben Guerdane Regional Hospital.
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