Published February 29,2024
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Rescuers pulled greater than 20 our bodies from the ocean off northern Senegal on Wednesday after a ship loaded with migrants heading for Europe sank, a regional governor informed AFP.
“A little more than 20 bodies” had been discovered, Saint-Louis regional governor Alioune Badara Samb stated by phone, including that one other 20 folks had been saved.
Badara Samb didn’t say what number of passengers had been aboard the vessel however survivors informed AFP that the quantity might have been within the tons of.
Mamady Dianfo, from Casamance within the far south of the nation, stated there have been about 300 passengers when the boat left Senegal per week in the past.
Another survivor, Alpha Balde, spoke of 200 passengers.
Senegal’s coasts are an more and more widespread departure level for African migrants heading to the Spanish Canary Islands, their port of entry into Europe.
Source: www.anews.com.tr