UN says 58 migrants dead as boat capsizes off Mauritania

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At least 58 people are dead after a boat carrying around 150 migrants from Gambia capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off Mauritania, UN migration agency says

In this file photo taken on October 11, 2017, African migrants arrive at a naval base in the Libyan capital Tripoli, after they were rescued from a rubber boat by coastguards off the Libyan coast of Sabratha.

The boat carrying at least 150 people had been low on fuel while approaching Mauritania, the UN agency said in a statement. It said survivors were being helped by Mauritanian authorities in the northern city of Nouadhibou.An unknown number of injured were taken to the hospital in Nouadhibou. Mauritanian authorities say up to 57 people are dead after a vessel carrying migrants sank off its coast today. Survivors told IOM staff the vessel left The Gambia last Weds. with at least 150 people aboard. Help is being provided to 83 survivors by the government, IOM & UNHCR.There was no immediate statement from authorities in Gambia, a small West African nation from which many migrants set off in hopes of reaching Europe.

 

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