적어도 140 migrants have drowned off Senegal in the deadliest shipwreck recorded this year, 유엔 이민국은 목요일 성명에서 말했다.
운반하는 선박은 200 사람들, 에 따르면 U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) 성명서. It added that, “according to media sources, the Senegalese and Spanish navies, and fishermen who were nearby rescued 59 people and retrieved the remains of 20 others.”
According to the IOM, the boat was bound for Spain’s Canary Islands but caught fire a few hours after departing Mbour, a coastal town in western Senegal, before capsizing near Saint-Louis, on the country’s northwest coast.
“The IOM is deeply saddened by this recent tragedy, which follows four shipwrecks recorded in the Central Mediterranean last week and another in the English Channel,” 성명은 말했다. The number of migrant boat departures from West Africa to the Canary Islands has “significantly increased” in recent weeks, 그것은 계속되었다.
“We call for unity between governments, partners and the international community to dismantle trafficking and smuggling networks that take advantage of desperate youth,” IOM Senegal Chief of Mission Bakary Doumbia said in the statement.
