10/10/2025 – 30/10/2025

  • At least 40 people, including children, have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia, the BBC reported on 23 October 2025. The boat was carrying around 70 people and sank close to the port of Mahdia, Tunisia, marking one of the region’s deadliest maritime disaster this year. The 30 survivors were rescued by the Tunisian coastguard.