Migrant sinking: death toll reaches 21 in Kébémer
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Soleil
The death toll from the presumed sinking of a pirogue carrying irregular emigration candidates has reached 21 dead off the coast of Loumpoul, in the Kébémer department. Searches by the gendarmerie and firefighters continue to find any other victims, Le Soleil reports.
The death toll from the sinking of a pirogue carrying irregular emigration candidates off Loumpoul, in the Kébémer department, has risen to 21 dead, against four counted so far, according to Le Soleil. The lifeless bodies were lined up on the shore on Saturday, where gendarmerie officers and firefighters continued searches to find other victims.
Most of the victims are said to be from the communes of Léona and Thiéppe, according to Le Soleil. The bodies are being taken to the Kébémer health district.
This tragedy comes two days after the discovery of four bodies of presumed migrants at Tébène 2 on 6 November, and on the day when four dead had been counted after a pirogue ran aground at Kébémer. On 7 November, another migrant sinking near Thiéppe had killed more than eleven people.
