Walking Borders Denounces the Shipwreck of a Cayuco to the Canary Islands, with 18 Survivors and 40 Bodies Recovered

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The incident occurred this Thursday off the Mauritanian coast although the cayuco had sailed from Gambia

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The Mauritanian authorities have rescued 18 people and 40 corpses after the shipwreck of a cayuco heading for the Canary Islands. This was denounced by the group Caminando Fronteras, which number in 144 the "victims" of the incident. Most of the crew members of the small sunken boat have Senegalese nationality, from where they would have started their route, or Gambian. Helena Maleno, spokesman for Walking Borders, who talks about "a number of m…

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Still a massacre of migrants headed from the coasts of West Africa to the Canary Islands: at least 40 corpses were recovered by the Mauritian authorities and about twenty people were rescued in the shipwreck of a gulet with on board more than a hundred people sailed from Gambia to reach the Iberian archipelago, according to the Spanish NGO 'Caminando Fronteras'. Sources of the Mauritian Coast Guard confirmed the shipwreck without specifying the …