About 34 migrants died when their boat sank off Mauritania

NOUAKCHOTT, Aug. 17 (YPA) – At least 34 irregular migrants probably died and 6 others survived when a wooden boat carrying them sank on their way to the Canary Islands in Spain, sources from the Mauritanian Coast Guard reported on Tuesday.

The sources pointed out that the six migrants were found on Monday and managed to escape, while their companions probably died, and that searches for them are underway on the coasts of the city of Nouadhibou (450 kilometers west of the capital, Nouakchott).

The migrants told the coast guard that they had left the Moroccan coast on August 2, and that choppy waves and wind movement pushed their boat south towards the Mauritanian waters which prevented them from reaching their last destination, Spain, and that the boat was disrupted due to wind and waves and ran out of fuel, water and supplies.

YPA