The coastguard rescued 11 on the boat, which set off from the coast of Zarzis, Faouzi Masmoudi, a judge in Sfax, told Reuters.
Tunisia is one of the main routes for migrants from African countries to reach Italy and the European continent.
In recent years, the desperate and dangerous efforts of migrants to reach the European continent using small and unsafe boats and their deaths in the Mediterranean Sea prompted Pope Francis, the leader of the world Catholics, to call the Mediterranean Sea 'Europe's biggest cemetery'.
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