Bodies of 16 migrants recovered off Tunisia’s eastern coast

The International Organization for Migration says more than 30,309 migrants and refugees died in the Mediterranean in the past decade, including more than 3,000 last year across the vast sea [File: Vincenzo Livieri/EPA]

The bodies of 16 migrants and refugees have been recovered by Tunisia’s coastguard off the country’s eastern coast, the National Guard says, the latest migrant boat disaster in the Mediterranean.

“The bodies were found at the weekend and on Monday … The victims have not been identified because the bodies had decomposed,” a senior official in the National Guard, Houssem Eddine Jebabli, told Reuters news agency.