International Organization for Migration says that 63 people are believed to be dead after the boat capsized, adding that those who are reported missing in shipwrecks are generally presumed dead.
Around 90 refugees from Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone had to be rescued in the seas off Cape Verde in January this year. / Photo: AFP
The 38 survivors included four children aged 12 to 16, IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli told AFP news agency on Wednesday. Emergency services recovered the remains of seven people, Msehli told AFP, while another 56 people are believed to be missing. The boat left the Senegalese fishing village of Fasse Boye on July 10 with 101 people on board, Senegal's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, citing survivors.
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