Cape Verde: Over 60 killed as boat with 100 Senegal migrants capsizes off the coast | Oneindia News
More than 60 people are believed to have died after the boat they were travelling on from Senegal was found off Cape Verde, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday.
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00:00 More than 60 people are believed to have died after the boat they were travelling on from
00:06 Senegal was found off Cape Verde, the International Organization for Migration said on Wednesday.
00:12 The boat, mostly carrying Senegalese migrants, left Senegal on July 10 with 101 passengers
00:19 on board.
00:20 According to Senegal's foreign ministry, 38 passengers were rescued.
00:24 However, the time of the incident was not immediately clear.
00:29 The Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders said that the vessel was a large fishing
00:34 boat called a pirogue.
00:37 According to the reports, the long wooden fishing vessel was spotted on Monday in the
00:42 Atlantic Ocean of West Africa, about 150 nautical miles from the Cape Verdean island of Saar.
00:49 Initial reports suggested the vessel had sunk, but it was later clarified that it was found
00:54 drifting.
00:56 The vessel was located by a Spanish fishing boat, which alerted Cape Verdean authorities.
01:01 Emergency services have recovered the remains of seven people, while another 56 people are
01:06 believed to be missing.
01:08 Cape Verde lies about 350 miles off the coast on the maritime route to Spain's Canary Islands.
01:15 The route from West Africa to Spain is one of the world's most dangerous, yet the number
01:19 of migrants leaving from Senegal on rickety wooden boats has surged over the past year.
01:25 Nearly 1,000 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by the sea in the first six months
01:30 of 2023, the Walking Borders group said.
01:34 Factors such as youth unemployment, political unrest, and the impact of climate change pushed
01:39 migrants to risk their lives on overcrowded boats.
01:42 On August 7, the Moroccan Navy recovered the bodies of five Senegalese migrants and rescued
01:47 189 others after their boat capsized off the coast of Western Sahara.
01:54 As migration returns to the top of Europe's political agenda, including in the UK, Europe's
01:59 Border and Coast Guard Agency said last week that irregular arrivals had risen by 13 percent
02:05 between January and July to 176,100, the highest number for the period since 2016.
02:13 Frantix said that the increase was entirely driven by a 115 percent rise in the number
02:18 of people using the Central Mediterranean route, which is now the main migratory route
02:24 into the EU and accounts for more than half of all border detections.
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