One is rescued from a deadly migrant shipwreck off Tunisia, while 50 are feared drowned

Fifty migrants are thought to have drowned in the Mediterranean as a boat sinks off Tunisia, leaving one migrant alive.

According to officials, a boat sank in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia, rescuing one migrant and perhaps drowning at least fifty others.

Before being recovered after spending almost twenty-four hours in the ocean, the survivor told rescuers that he thought every other passenger on the ship perished. Alarm Phone, a company that runs an emergency hotline for migrants in difficulty at sea, supplied the information.

According to Alarm Phone, the boat left Tunisia, a significant starting point for migrants trying to make the dangerous trek across the Mediterranean to Europe.

According to Malta’s military, the man was sent to Malta for medical attention after being saved by a commercial ship sailing off Tunisia. The precise moment of the rescue was not made public by Alarm Phone or Maltese police.

One of the deadliest migration routes in the world, the central Mediterranean, continues to see a high number of shipwrecks involving migrant boats.