Two migrants die, 88 saved off Cape Verde
By AFP
January 17, 2023
PRAIA, Cape Verde: Rescue teams in Cape Verde have saved 88 migrants adrift in a canoe, but two others aboard the vessel have died, the national press agency Inforpress reported.
The motorised canoe, known as a pirogue, was spotted by a lighthouse keeper on Saturday on the coast of the northern island of Boa Vista, it said. The migrants come from Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone, Inforpress said on Sunday, quoting local police.
Six have been hospitalised with dehydration, it said. Cape Verde is a former Portuguese archipelago located around 600-km off the coast of West Africa.
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