The Senegalese navy found on Sunday 22 September a boat adrift a few dozen kilometres off the coast of Dakar with at least thirty “lifeless body” on board, the military said in a statement.
“So far, thirty bodies have been counted” and investigations are underway to establish the origin of the canoe and clarify the human cost of the tragedy, the army said in a statement posted on social media. The coasts of Senegal are the scene of a succession of tragedies involving irregular migration to Europe.
The Navy was informed on Sunday afternoon of the presence of a canoe adrift about 70 kilometres off the coast of Dakar. “with several lifeless bodies”The press release said. A patrol boat sent to the area towed the ship to the port of Dakar, where it arrived at around 6 a.m. (local time and GMT) on Monday and where doctors, firefighters and sanitation workers intervened.
“Recovery, identification and transfer operations are very delicate due to the advanced state of decomposition of the bodies”specifies the army.
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