BBC News - Tunisia: 150 migrant bodies found after boat accident: "An operation to rescue passengers began off the Tunisian Kerkennah islands on Wednesday.
More than 580 people were saved, but some 250 went missing as the boat capsized in the stampede to leave.
The migrants were on a boat bound from Libya for Italy.
Rescue operations by the Tunisian navy and coast guard are still continuing.
Seven people, including two pregnant women, are in intensive care in hospitals at Sfax on the Tunisian mainland.
Supplies ran out
'Up to now 150 bodies of refugees have been found off the shores of Kerkennah,' Carole Laleve from the UN refugee agency told Reuters news agency."
Friday, June 3, 2011
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