Tunisia's coastguard and navy Monday rescued almost 180 African migrants from two boats which broke down as they headed from Libya to Italy, the Red Crescent and an AFP correspondent said. The Red Crescent said the migrants - 94 on one boat and 84 on the other - sent out a distress call from off the coast of southeast Tunisia as they headed for the Italian island of Lampedusa.
A previous count had said 174 were rescued. The 178 migrants from Africa were evacuated to the Tunisian port of Zarzis and provisionally lodged in a warehouse. They were mostly from Somalia, Ghana, Gambia, Sudan and Niger, said Dr Riyadh Belhaj of the Zarzis Red Crescent which took them in, adding that all passengers on the two boats were rescued.
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