89 migrants dead at sea off Mauritania: news agency

  • 7/5/2024
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NOUAKCHOTT: Nearly 90 migrants bound for Europe perished when their boat capsized earlier this week off the coast of Mauritania, the state news agency and a local official said Thursday, while dozens more remain missing. “The Mauritanian coast guard recovered the bodies of 89 people aboard a large traditional fishing boat that capsized on Monday July 1 on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean” about four kilometers from the country’s southwest city of Ndiago, the state news agency said.

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