TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia on Friday arrested the main organiser of a migrant smuggling operation after at least 87 people drowned when their boat sank off the southern coast this month, the government said.
The boat sank off Kerkenna island from where it had set out. Dozens of people were rescued by the coastguard.
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