More than 140 dead, missing on refugee boat stranded off Mauritania
More than 140 dead, missing on refugee boat stranded off Mauritania UN says a boat carrying refugees and migrants from Africa drifted for 25 days before...
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- More than 140 dead, missing on refugee boat stranded off Mauritania UN says a boat carrying refugees and migrants from Africa drifted for 25 days before arriving at a port with dead and living on board.
- At least 143 refugees and migrants are dead or missing from a single boat off the coast of Mauritania that was trying to reach Europe, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, says.
- The agency said on Tuesday that it was “extremely saddened” by the deaths, which came despite three rescue operations off Mauritania between July 14 and 18 that pulled 387 people to safety from other stranded boats.
- Recommended Stories list of 2 items- list 1 of 2‘We can’t go out’: Migrants hide as Mauritania presses deportation campaign - list 2 of 2EU-backed migrant crackdowns in Mauritania fuel fear and deportations The vessel had set off from Bafuloto in The Gambia and was rescued on July 18 after 25 days adrift, carrying bodies and 38 survivors when it reached the port of Nouadhibou, the UNHCR said.
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More than 140 dead, missing on refugee boat stranded off Mauritania UN says a boat carrying refugees and migrants from Africa drifted for 25 days before arriving at a port with dead and living on board. At least 143 refugees and migrants are dead or missing from a single boat off the coast of Mauritania that was trying to reach Europe, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, says. The agency said on Tuesday that it was “extremely saddened” by the deaths, which came despite three rescue operations off Mauritania between July 14 and 18 that pulled 387 people to safety from other stranded boats. Recommended Stories list of 2 items- list 1 of 2‘We can’t go out’: Migrants hide as Mauritania presses deportation campaign - list 2 of 2EU-backed migrant crackdowns in Mauritania fuel fear and deportations The vessel had set off from Bafuloto in The Gambia and was rescued on July 18 after 25 days adrift, carrying bodies and 38 survivors when it reached the port of Nouadhibou, the UNHCR said. Another person died on another vessel that disembarked in Mauritania on July 14. Mauritania’s coastguard put the number missing at 122, saying the boat ran out of fuel after leaving The Gambia with 160...