Tunisia - (dpa) - The Tunisian Ministry of Defense announced today, Monday, the recovery of the body of a migrant and the rescue of 97 immigrants of several foreign nationalities in three separate interventions by the Army of the Sea.

And the Tunisian navy rescued, in the intervention of the first 68 migrants, who had set off from the Libyan coast on the night between the first and second day of this July, towards the European coast, before their boat broke down and they took refuge in a gas production platform 70 km from the island of Kerkennah in the state of Sfax (center). Tunisia).

Among the surviving migrants , 37 are from Egypt, 13 from Bangladesh, 12 from Syria, 2 from Somalia and 4 from Sudan, according to the ministry's statement.

The naval units also recovered the body of a migrant from a sub-Saharan African country.

In a second phase, the Tunisian navy rescued two boats off the coast of Sfax with 29 Tunisian immigrants on board.

Secret migration boats are more active with the stabilization of the climate in the summer period in the Mediterranean basin.

The rescue operations come in the wake of the sinking of a boat near the coast of the island of Djerba in the south, which led to the death of six migrants and the survival of 11 migrants.

The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, which deals with migration, counted the death and missing of about 400 immigrants near the Tunisian coast this year until the end of last May.