A frail wooden boat called a pirogue ran aground off Senegal Friday afternoon. It was found Monday in two pieces and badly damaged on a barren stretch of coastline in the northwestern town of Thieppe. The casualties came from the region, notably Thieppe and the village of Potou, AFP said.
The death toll was 35 on Sunday evening, but Louga regional Governor Ndeye Nguenar Mbodj boosted that amount by four on Monday morning. The four recent victims were discovered in “a very advanced state of decomposition” and the authorities requested to bury them on the spot, Mbodj said.
On Monday, Senegal’s Interior Minister Mouhamadou Makhtar Cisse saluted the wreckage at the scene, which AFP photographers saw. We can understand the young peoples desire to leave, their day to day problems, the desire to achieve their potential and help their families”, he stated. “Leaving is an option but dying at sea should not be an option.
He called the smugglers who aid refugees make such travels “modern day slave-traders” who “must be relentlessly hunted down”.He called for awareness efforts to avoid young people buying into “false aspirations” and said Spain needed a system where migrants could obtain work permits for limited periods of time.
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