DAKAR: A small boat carrying migrants sank off northwestern Senegal, resulting in at least 34 deaths in the latest tragedy along the dangerous Atlantic Ocean route from Africa to Europe, authorities confirmed on Sunday.
The disaster is the latest in a series of deadly incidents along the perilous maritime route, where thousands of migrants from West Africa attempt to reach Spain’s Canary Islands. An initial statement from the Senegalese interior ministry reported that 21 bodies and only one survivor had been recovered. However, those figures were provisional as search operations continued.
Later on Sunday, the Senegalese Press Agency (APS) updated the death toll to at least 34, a figure confirmed by the Action for Human Rights and Friendship (ADHA) in a statement to AFP. An indeterminate number of people remain missing.
Media reports indicated that the piro
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