In a shipwreck near Tunis last weekend, 11 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died, and 44 are missing.
The shipwreck happened off the Tunisian coast, near Sfax, the center of illegal emigration to Europe, the court in Sfax announced.
"Ten more bodies were recovered last night and that number is added to the four dead found earlier," court spokesman Fauzi Masmudi said.
He said that the search is continuing and that only two migrants were rescued from the ship with 57 people on board.
Their vessel departed on an unknown date from the beach north of Sfax opposite the island of Kerkenah.
The coast guard tried to find out if there were other shipwrecks in the area after 12 bodies were found on beaches north of Sfax between Friday and Sunday.
For now, it cannot be determined whether those 12 bodies are from the shipwreck near Kerkenach.
But the drama has nothing to do with the two shipwrecks that left Sfax possibly last Thursday, with at least 30 people missing off the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to the Italian coast guard.
Sfax is located about 130 kilometers from Lampedusa and from the beginning of 2023 is the main point of departure for thousands of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
From January 1 to July 20, 901 bodies of migrants were recovered off the coast of Tunisia, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, according to an official count in Tunisia.
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