41 dead in migrant shipwreck, according to survivors who set off from Tunisia

Migrants are carried by a MSF rescue team boat after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea (Stefan Pejovic/MSF Via AP)

Forty-one people are believed dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Tunisia in rough seas, the Italian Red Cross and rescue groups reported – citing four survivors who were rescued and brought to land.

The survivors reported having left Sfax, Tunisia, on a metal boat with a total of 45 people on August 3.