Seventeen Tunisians on migrant boat towards Italy missing -coast guard official

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At least seventeen Tunisians who were on a migrant boat heading towards the Italian coast are missing, a Tunisian national guard official said on Monday.

The missing people, including a five-year-old child, had set sail on a fishing boat from Bizerte‮ ‬in northern Tunisia last week, the national guard official, Houssem Eddine Jebabli, told Reuters.

Coast guard and Navy forces, supported by helicopter, have begun operations search operations, the official said.

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