Dozens of bodies found on boat along migrant route off the coast of Senegal’s capital

Senegal’s military acknowledged on Monday that as a minimal 30 bodies delight in been found on a boat along a migrant route, off the coast of Dakar. The navy learned of the vessel’s presence on Sunday evening, forward of sending out a boat patrol to the dwelling.

In accordance to the military, investigations will expose more information about the boat’s starting up place, and the overall death toll.

It comes after a boat with 89 of us on board capsized off the coast of the nation earlier in September, killing dozens. Many of these fleeing Senegal are in search of to flee poverty and a lack of jobs, and rob a examine to make it to the Canary Islands, the place more than 22,300 of us delight in landed since the birth of the year.

The route from West Africa to the Canary Islands is one of the deadliest in the world. In August, Senegal’s military offered it had arrested hundreds of migrants and ‘contributors of smuggling networks’.

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