{"id":166710,"date":"2022-03-04T11:06:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=166710"},"modified":"2022-03-04T11:06:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:06:49","slug":"four-migrants-die-of-cold-and-hunger-in-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=166710","title":{"rendered":"Four migrants die of &#8216;cold and hunger&#8217; in Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/assets.nst.com.my\/images\/articles\/feriejrls_1646317616.jpg\" alt=\" - REUTERS FILE PIC\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TUNIS, March 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The bodies of four African migrants have been found in eastern Tunisia, authorities said, saying they had probably died of cold or hunger after crossing the Algerian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Three bodies were found on Wednesday and another one five days ago in Haidra, Kasserine governorate&#8221; near the Algerian border, said the region&#8217;s medical chief, Abdelghani Chaabani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All four were men aged between 20 and 35. The only one carrying an identity document was from the Ivory Coast, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bodies were transferred to a hospital in the regional capital, also called Kasserine, for autopsies, &#8220;but it is very likely that they died of cold and hunger&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, hundreds of migrants have passed through Tunisia with the aim of making clandestine bids to reach Europe by sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many head for the Italian island of Lampedusa, just 140km from Tunisian shores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Organisation for Migration says some 8,000 people have died since 2014 attempting the trip from Libya and Tunisia to Italy and Malta, known as the Central Mediterranean Route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tunisia and Libya, which saw uprisings in 2011 that left Tunisia in political turmoil and tipped Libya into a decade of armed violence, both saw an uptick in migrant departures in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 123,000 migrants landed in Italy in 2021, compared to some 95,000 the previous year, according to the UN&#8217;s refugee agency UNHCR. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, March 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The bodies of four African migrants have been found in eastern Tunisia, authorities said, saying they had probably died of cold or hunger after crossing the Algerian border. &#8220;Three bodies were found on Wednesday and another one five days ago in Haidra, Kasserine governorate&#8221; near the Algerian border, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166710"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166712,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166710\/revisions\/166712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}