A capsizing of a canoe in the Saint-Louis breach in Senegal occurred on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. The preliminary report shows six dead bodies and four survivors. The crew is missing.
The victims were sent to the Saint-Louis regional hospital. The same source of information that firefighters are currently on the scene. And the search continues.
It should be noted that the boat carried more than sixty people, candidates for irregular migration.
As a reminder, according to the migrant aid association Walking Borders, at least 300 migrants aboard three boats that had left Senegal for the Canary Islands disappeared at sea.
Interviewed by Reuters, Helena Maleno of Walking Borders said that the two boats carrying more than 100 people have been missing for 15 days trying to reach Spain.
The third boat had about 200 people on board and had left Senegal on 27 June, said Helena Maleno. “The three boats left Kafountine, in southern Senegal, about 1,700 kilometres from Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands,” she added. Families are very concerned. There are about 300 people from the same region of Senegal. They left because of the instability in Senegal”.
At least 559 people, including 22 children, died in 2022 while trying to reach the Canary Islands, according to data from the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM).
