Mokhtar Hmidi, the father of Fakher who still unaccounted for after last week's capsizing off the Italian island of Lampedusa, shows pictures of his son, with Fakher's mother pictured in the background during an interview with Reuters in Thina district of Sfax, Tunisia October 15, 2019. Picture taken October 15, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
SFAX, Tunisia (Reuters) - It only took 10 minutes for Fakher Hmidi to slip out of his house, past the cafes where unemployed men spend their days, and reach the creek through the mud flats where a small boat would ferry him to the migrant ship heading from Tunisia to Italy.
He left late at night, and the first his parents knew of it was the panicked, crying phone call from an Italian mobile number: "The boat is sinking. We're in danger. Ask Mum to forgive me."
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