Tunisia: 262 illicit immigrants saved off Sfax

(MENAFN) A report issued by the Defense Ministry showed that on Friday, May. 28 Tunisia�s authorities saved a number of 262 illicit immigrants of several nationalities in two separate drives. The ministry said in a report: "a rescue operation took place this afternoon off the coastal city of Sfax in southeastern Tunisia, when a unit of the naval guard managed to rescue 158 illegal immigrants from a sinking boat sailing to the Italian coasts." The report noted, the group of unlawful immigrants comprises two babies. In a second drive earlier in the day, the Tunisian naval guard saved a number of 104 illicit immigrants of Tunisian, Moroccan, Sudanese, Egyptian and Ghanaian nationalities, also off the coastal city of Sfax.