Hundreds of migrants from Senegal have gone missing while heading to the Canary Islands through the Atlantic Ocean.
Coordinator for the humanitarian organisation Walking Borders, or ‘Caminando Fronteras’ in Spanish, Helena Maleno Garzon, reported that the boats left Senegal in late June.
According to Ms Garzon, three boats left the southern town of Kafountine four days after another two, with each carrying roughly 200 people, on June 23 from the coastal city of Mbour in central Senegal.
Since the boats left, there has been no communication with them, she claimed.
“The most important thing is to find those people. There are many people missing in the sea. This isn’t normal. We need more planes to look for them,” Ms Garzon told the Associated Press.
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