At least 49 people died and some 100 remain missing after tragedy struck off the coast of Mauritania. A vessel carrying dozens of migrants capsized between Tuesday night and Wednesday, the Mauritanian coast guard and police force told AFP, APA reports, citing Express.
The accident happened when the migrants saw the lights of a town off the coast of Mauritania 50 miles north of the capital Nouakchott and "moved to one side, causing it to capsize", a senior coasguard official told AFP. According to a statement from the migrants, the boat left The Gambia a week earlier and carried 160 people, including Senegalese and Gambian nationals.
Officials did not say where the migrants in Tuesday's accident were headed.
