News update
  • Climate Change Drives Deadly Floods, Storms, and Water Crises     |     
  • UN Advances Peace, Development Amid Global Challenges     |     
  • S Arabia, Pak ink defence pact after Israeli strike on Qatar     |     
  • No new committee forming, focus on polls candidates: Tarique     |     
  • Dhaka-Beijing partnership to advance peace, prosperity: Yunus     |     
  1. Home
  2. Migration
  3. 89 migrants dead at sea off Mauritania: news agency

89 migrants dead at sea off Mauritania: news agency

GreenWatch Desk Migration 2024-07-05, 10:55am

image-198552-1720146437-1-7d8a93ccd5b01ef58d17c5c4e2e43ac31720155606.jpg




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 kilometres from the country's southwest city of Ndiago, the state news agency said - BSS.