Tunisia’s coastguard says it has intercepted greater than 17,000 folks making an attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe from the nation since January.
In the identical interval final 12 months, solely 3,000 tried to make the journey.
However hundreds extra are making it to Europe.
Bernard Smith studies from Lampedusa – an Italian island closest to Tunisia.
Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith studies from Lampedusa, Italy.
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