At least 14 lifeless bodies were found after a pirogue capsized on Sunday night off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. According to authorities, the victims are presumably migrants.
At least fourteen lifeless bodies were found after a pirogue capsized on Sunday night off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, as reported by Samba Kandji, deputy mayor of the Ouakam district, and a gendarmerie source. “They are presumably migrants,” said Samba Kandji. Gendarmes and firefighters are on Ouakam Beach, a neighborhood in the Senegalese capital, and are continuing rescue operations on Monday morning to search for other bodies, as observed by an AFP journalist.
A week ago, the sinking of a pirogue carrying migrants from the vicinity of Dakar resulted in at least thirteen deaths off the coast of Morocco. A few days earlier, a similar vessel had capsized near the border between Senegal and Mauritania, leading to at least fourteen people drowning.
