The NGO Caminando Fronteras reported this Thursday the death of 16 people and the disappearance of another nine, including a teenager and four babies, in the shipwreck of a small boat last Sunday in southern Morocco.
The shipwreck occurred off the coast of Ajfenir just after the inflatable boat set sail, carrying some 53 people to the Canary Islands, according to the president of the association, Helena Maleno.
The data collected by the organization, speaking with survivors, relatives and Moroccan authorities, is that there were 48 adults and five children on board, half of them from sub-Saharan countries, but also from Morocco and Bangladesh.
Two of the 16 bodies found between Sunday, Monday and Tuesday carried documents, according to Maleno, and they were a woman of Guinean nationality and a Moroccan.
The bodies, explains the head of the NGO, have been buried without, according to her, the request of the family of the Guinean woman to repatriate the body being attended to. Among the lifeless bodies were those of a Moroccan teenager, woman and man, she maintains.
Moroccan authorities reported on Monday the shipwreck, the discovery of eight lifeless bodies and the arrest of 18 people allegedly crew members of the boat.
Nine missing and 16 dead in the shipwreck of a small boat heading to the Canary Islands
This was reported by the NGO Caminando Fronteras, which states that among the missing are a teenager and four babies.
July 28 2022 (19:20 WEST)
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July 28 2022 (21:13 WEST)
