Some 40 corpses that could be from emigrants sub-Saharan migrants were found this Monday on several beaches in Mauritania, Mauritanian security sources have informed Efe. Twenty of them were found 120 kilometers west of Nouakchott, the sources explained.
The rest of the bodies were found in the port of Nouakchott, indicated the sources, who stressed that the bodies were beginning to decompose. They added that the bodies were buried but there is no data on their nationalitytheir origin or the circumstances of the shipwreck, but they assure that they are sub-Saharan emigrants who They had wanted to reach the Spanish coasts.
Caminando Fronteras reported 6,007 deaths or disappearances on boats bound for the Canary Islands in 2023, 395 of them in canoes that set sail from Mauritania. Only in the first three months of the year, from January to March, the NGO is aware of 22 Mauritanian canoes lost on the Atlantic Route, with more than 1,500 people on board.
Source: Lasexta
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