At least five African migrants died and another 28 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, an official of a local rights group said.
Romadan Ben Omar, the official in the Tunisian Forum for Social and Economic Rights, said that coast guard rescued five migrants who had been on board the boat that sank off the coast of the southern city of Sfax, and that they were in a bad psychological condition.
Tunisian authorities were not immediately available for comment.
