Brazil buries bodies of Africa refugees found in boat off its Amazon region

In a somber ceremony, various groups involved in the recovery, including the UN Refugee Agency, the Red Cross, as well as Brazilian police, navy, and civil defense agencies, come together to lay the deceased to rest./ Photo: AP

Brazilian officials later said documents found in the vessel indicated that the victims were migrants from Mali and Mauritania and that the boat had departed the latter country after January 17. A tropical rain fell as their coffins were lowered into graves dug into the earth and those present watched in respectful silence.

It was a rustic blue-and-white fiberglass boat that, when found, had neither motor, tiller nor rudder. Its canoe shape is similar to Mauritanian fishing boats often used by migrants fleeing West Africa and aiming to enter the European Union via Spain’s Canary Islands.An Associated Press investigation published last year revealed that in 2021 at least seven boats from northwest Africa were found in the Caribbean and Brazil. All carried dead bodies, like the vessel found in Para.

This year the number of people attempting the crossing from the northwest coast of Africa to the EU has seen a 500 percent spike, with the majority departing from Mauritania, according to Spain's Interior Ministry.

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