Another serious disaster occurred off northwestern Senegal when a boat carrying irregular migrants sank, killing at least 21 people. Senegal’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the death toll was only provisional, as intensive operations to search for the dead and missing at sea continued.
Senegalese authorities also said they had intercepted and detained another 142 migrants, including women and young children, aboard a small boat attempting the sea crossing to Spain.
Thousands of people from West Africa have died in recent years while risking their lives to reach Europe along this extremely dangerous Atlantic sea route. By Rithy.
