<div><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Coastguards have recovered the dead of 41 migrants off the coast of Tunisia, as the number of people dying trying to reach Europe from Africa continues to rise.</span><br></b></div><div><br></div><div>According to a senior official, almost 200 people have drowned in the last ten days, reports BBC.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Tunisian morgues were running out of room, he said, and officials were struggling to keep up with the spike in attempted crossings.</div><div><br></div><div>"On Tuesday, we had more than 200 bodies, well beyond the capacity of the hospital, which creates a health problem," said Faouzi Masmoudi, justice official in the port city of Sfax where the central morgue for an area of around a million people is sited.</div><div><br></div><div>"There is a problem with large numbers of corpses arriving on the shore. We don't know who they are or what shipwreck they came from and the number is increasing."</div><div><br></div><div>According the UN's migration agency, a total of roughly 300 individuals died during the previous week and a half, and 824 people have died this year, with those leaving from the Libyan coast are included.</div><div><br></div><div>Houssem Eddine Jebabli of the national guard told Reuters, the decomposed condition of the recovered bodies indicated that they had been submerged for several days.</div><div><br></div><div>According to him, the total number of fatalities in such a short period was unprecedented.</div><div><br></div><div>Tunisia has become a transit point for irregular migrants, primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa, attempting to reach Europe by sea.</div><div><br></div><div>The number of migrant deaths at sea has varied, with the UN's Missing Migrants Project reporting that 300 migrants died in the Central Mediterranean in the last 10 days alone. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>