Dozens of African migrants bound for Europe are missing and believed dead after a shipwreck off the coast of west Africa.
38 people on a vessel that had left the town of Fass Boye in western Senegal a month earlier with more than 100 people on board, officials said, part of a recent migrant surge from Africa into Europe.
The Spanish migrant activist group Caminando Fronteras said the ship was a large fishing vessel that left Senegal on July 10 with more than 100 migrants on board. A boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants, including children, capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean, leaving more than 60 people missing who are feared dead.
The year 2023 has seen a dramatic spike in the number of migrants attempting the crossing, and the number of sea deaths has increased correspondingly. According to figures provided by the United Nations refugee agency , as of August 13, some 2,175 people were reported dead or missing in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year.across the Mediterranean Sea into Italy so far in 2023, more than double the number who had arrived by this date in 2022, the United Nations revealed.
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