A fishing boat stated to be carrying 170 individuals, together with youngsters, capsized off the coast of Mauritania – alongside the Atlantic migration route from West Africa to the Canary Islands.
A minimum of 89 individuals have died after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania, the West African nation’s state information company and the pinnacle of a fishing affiliation stated.
An extra 70 persons are stated to be nonetheless lacking and 9 individuals, together with a five-year-old woman, have been rescued.
The Atlantic migration route from the coast of West Africa to the Canary Islands is among the world’s deadliest, and summer time is its busiest interval.
On Thursday, the coastguard have been stated to have recovered the our bodies of 89 individuals who have been sure for Europe.
Yali Fall, president of the fishing affiliation within the southwestern city of Ndiago, stated the variety of fatalities had risen additional to 105, and locals had been burying our bodies that had washed ashore since Monday.
“For 3 days, we buried the lifeless whose our bodies have been discovered,” he stated.
Within the first 5 months of 2024, an unprecedented virtually 5,000 individuals died at sea as they tried to succeed in the Canary Islands, migrants rights group Strolling Borders stated in June.
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Arrivals to the islands additionally soared 5 instances to over 16,500 from a yr prior, in line with Spanish inside ministry knowledge.
Native media stated the boat was a fishing boat and that it had been principally Senegalese and Gambian individuals on board.
