Death Toll in Migrant Boats Disaster Off Tunisia Rises to 20

A Tunisian national coast guard helps a migrant child to get off a rescue boat in Jbeniana, Safx, Tunisia, on April 23, 2022, in this screengrab taken from a handout video taken April 23, 2022. Wahid Dahech/ Handout via Reuters

TUNIS—The death toll from African migrant boats that sank off Tunisia at the weekend rose to 20 people on Monday, a judicial official said, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia.

The coast guard recovered three more bodies on Monday, said Mourad Turki, spokesperson for Sfax Courts.