Around twenty bodies found on the beach at Lompoul, Senegal
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Senego
Around twenty lifeless bodies were discovered on Saturday afternoon on the beach at Lompoul, in the department of Kébémer, north-west Senegal, the day after a pirogue was reported to have run aground.
Around twenty lifeless bodies were discovered on Saturday afternoon on the beach at Lompoul, in the department of Kébémer, Louga region, in northern Senegal, according to a security source cited by the Senegalese Press Agency (APS). The bodies were found in the Tébène area, in the Potou Saradao sector.
The discovery came the day after a pirogue was reported to have run aground off the locality. Gendarmerie officers and firefighters were mobilised for search and recovery operations, and the bodies recovered were taken away for identification. The number of passengers on board the boat has not yet been officially established.
This new tragedy comes two days after the discovery of four bodies of presumed migrants at Tébène 2 on 6 November, and after four deaths in the grounding of a pirogue at Kébémer reported the same day. The Kébémer area, a frequent departure point for pirogues heading to the Canaries, is accumulating the tragedies of irregular migration.
