Tunis, June 13, 2020, SPA -- The death toll from a ship packed with African migrants that sank off the Tunisian coast this week has risen to 61, Reuters quoted a local official as saying on Saturday. Dozens had set out on the vessel from Tunisia's Kerkennah island the previous weekend aiming to reach Italy but local authorities have since Thursday buried the bodies of many of the would-be migrants following the incident. The Coast Guard had recovered more bodies including a baby, raising the death toll to 61, Mourad Mechri, a civil protection official, said. --SPA 02:06 LOCAL TIME 23:06 GMT 0017 www.spa.gov.sa/w1349684