18 illegal immigrants rescued off Tunisian coast18名非法移民在突尼斯海岸获救18 illegal immigrants were rescued by Tunisia’s navy off the southeast coast, according to a statement released by the Defence ministry on Sunday.

根据突尼斯国防部周日发布的一份声明，18名非法移民在东南海岸被突尼斯海军营救。

The statement said that the rescue operation happened about 50 kilometres to the southeast of Zarzis in Medenine province.

The group is said to have consisted of 17 Sudanese nationals and one Egyptian national.

声明说，救援行动发生在麦登省扎尔兹东南约50公里处。

据说该组织由17名苏丹国民和1名埃及国民组成。

The statement added that it was confirmed that the immigrants had sailed from Libya towards the coast of Italy.

声明还说，已经证实这些移民是从利比亚乘船前往意大利海岸的。

(Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)On Saturday, the government said that that it had thwarted two illegal immigration attempts involving 94 immigrants off the coast of Sfax.

58 Tunisians and 36 people of various African nationalities were arrested in the operation.

周六，政府表示，他们已经击破了两起涉及94名移民的非法移民企图，其中58名突尼斯人和36名非洲国籍的人在行动中被捕。

The summer season tends to coincide with a spike in illegal immigration attempts due to favourable weather conditions.

由于天气条件良好，夏季往往与非法移民人数激增同时发生。

However, that does not make the journey any easier with Mediterranean Sea deaths in 2019 accounting for half of all global deaths recorded of migrants in transit, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

然而，根据国际移民组织(IOM)的数据，这并不能使旅途变得更轻松，2019年地中海死亡人数占到了全球所有过境移民死亡人数的一半。

Over 600 people have died in 2019 while attempting to make the dangerous crossing across the Mediterranean Sea.

2019年，有600多人在试图穿越地中海时死亡。

At least 36,670 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea through 24 July, according to the IOM, representing a 35 per cent decrease from the same period in 2018.

根据国际移民组织的数据，截至7月24日，至少有36670名移民和难民通过海路进入欧洲，比2018年同期减少了35%。

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