A total of 56 people starved to death in a pirogue rescued in Cape Verde after a month at sea with 101 travelers on board, according to a Red Cross report that Lusa had access to this Wednesday.
“Before they were found, they drifted for 41 days, and from the seventh day they ran out of supplies, which cost the lives of more than 50% of the passengers who were thrown into the sea due to the decomposition of the bodies,” the document details with reference to the commander of the fishing boat, which rescued and listened to the survivors.
This is the first known report of anyone arriving alive on Sal Island after leaving northern Senegal, Port St. Louis, in the border area with Mauritania, on July 7, with 101 migrants, most of them Senegalese and two from Guinea -Bissau, the message says.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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