The number of people killed in yesterday’s migrant boat accident off the coast of Senegal has risen to 34. BBC reports, citing the Senegalese Press Agency.
The Interior Minister said one person was rescued. The number of people missing has still not been established.
A small wooden boat capsized between the capital Dakar and the northern city of Saint-Louis as it was heading for Spain’s Canary Islands. Those who died, whose bodies were recovered, were Senegalese nationals. The nationality of the other people on board will be determined, said Saliou Diouf, founder of the migrant aid group Boza Fii.
The Spanish migrant rights group Walking Borders recorded 635 deaths on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands between January and May this year, the highest figure since records began.