TUNIS, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian coast guards have retrieved the bodies of nine illegal immigrants after their boat sank off the southeastern province of Medenine, the Tunisian National Guard said Thursday.
"A unit of the naval guard retrieved Thursday off Zarzis coast nine bodies of illegal immigrants of different nationalities and rescued 43 others, including one person in critical condition," it said in a statement posted on its Facebook page.
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