Lompoul: a survivor describes the capsizing of a pirogue, 38 dead
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on SeneNews
Three more bodies were recovered on Monday 9 November off Lompoul, bringing to 38 the number of victims of the capsizing of a pirogue carrying would-be migrants. Searches continue for any missing people, according to SeneNews, which reports a survivor’s account of the circumstances of the tragedy.
The death toll from the Lompoul shipwreck on the Senegalese coast has reached 38, after the discovery of three more bodies on Monday 9 November, according to SeneNews. Searches continue for any missing people, while families are still awaiting news.
Interior and Public Security Minister Mamadou Makhtar Cissé went to the scene to meet the bereaved families. According to the account of a survivor, a street trader, the pirogue, which was carrying would-be migrants to Europe, was already overloaded and uncomfortable before the intervention. The capsizing occurred during a chase with vessels of the National Navy and the gendarmerie, which were approaching the boat.
This tragedy follows the shipwrecks recorded this week. President Bassirou Diomaye Faye had already mobilised the state on 8 November, and the toll, then 35 dead, has since been revised upwards.
