Smugglers Offer New Routes to Europe for Jobless Tunisians

Smugglers Offer New Routes to Europe for Jobless Tunisians
Migrants are seen on a boat after they were rescued by Tunisian coast guard off the coast of Bizerte, Tunisia Oct. 12, 2017. Reuters/Zoubeir Souissi
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OFF THE TUNISIAN COAST–Tunisian smugglers are offering migrants seeking a fresh start in Europe a new route from Africa to Italy.

Thousands have made the dangerous 300 km journey between Libya and the Italian island of Lampedusa this year and hundreds more are thought to have died trying to crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach European shores.