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Tug with 75 migrants on board refused port entry
The "Maridive 601" rescued 75 migrants in international waters but was now stranded off the Tunisian coast 10 days later as authorities refused to let it dock, the Red Crescent said on June 9, 2019. The tug had taken aboard the migrants off the southern Tunisian coast in late May after they embarked from Libya- A Red Crescent team based in the southern Tunisian city of Zarzis delivered aid and medical care to the migrants, some of whom were ill. The captain in vain had appealed to Tunisian authorities for urgent permission to access Zarzis port.
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