More than 60 migrants are presumed to have died on board a pirogue that left the coast of Senegal at the beginning of July and was found off the coast of Cape Verde on Monday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday, August 16, 2023.
An estimated 63 people died and 38 survived, including four children aged between twelve and sixteen, IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli told the media.
The boat was spotted in the Atlantic on Monday around 150 nautical miles (277 km) from the Cape Verdean island of Sal by a Spanish fishing vessel, which alerted the Cape Verdean authorities, said the police of the archipelago, around 600 km from the Senegalese coast.
In addition to the 38 survivors, the rescuers found the remains of seven people, the spokeswoman said.
According to the testimonies of the survivors quoted by the Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other sources, the boat had left the town of Fass Boye (west), on the Senegalese coast, on 10 July with 101 passengers on board, all Senegalese with the exception of one Bissau-Guinean.
As a result, 56 people are reported missing. "Generally, when people are reported missing following a shipwreck, they are presumed dead", explained the spokeswoman.
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