SENEGAL – The discovery of more bodies in Senegalese waters on Monday raised the death toll to 39 after a migrant boat capsized over the weekend.
Only one passenger had been rescued and an operation to find others was ongoing, the interior ministry said. It did not say how many people were on the boat.
The boat left Northern Senegal and was headed to the Spanish coast when it overturned Sunday.
It was one of two accidents involving migrants in boats over the weekend that left at least 56 people dead, the international organization for migration said.
The other was in Greece, where authorities recovered 13 bodies from a boat found sailing South of Crete. Another person died later.
