The Tunisian navy rescued 126 migrants from drowning off the country's south-eastern coast, the Tunisian Red Crescent said Sunday. According to dpa, the migrants were on a journey heading for Italy late Saturday when their rubber boat developed a problem off Tunisia's Mediterranean Sea town of Zarzis. They included 48 women and three infants. The migrants, all of them from Africa, had left Libya's coastal town of Sabratha three days earlier, Mongi Slim, an official in the Tunisian Red Crescent, told state news agency TAP. He added that the migrants would be transported from the Zarzis port to accommodation centres run by the UN refugee agency and International Organization for Migration.
