The authorities in Senegal have updated this Monday the death toll to 39 for the fatalities located near Lompul beach, in the north of the country, after a vessel carrying migrants ran aground off the coast. For the moment, only one person has been found alive.
As detailed by the state news agency APS, the emergency teams recovered over the course of the day the bodies of four more people who had died, after three consecutive days of search and rescue work deployed along a stretch of coastline of about 25 kilometers, difficult to access.
In total, 24 of the corpses have been identified and handed over to their families, while another eleven continue to be unidentified, bearing in mind that the last four bodies found showed an advanced state of decomposition.
APS has also indicated that the authorities have launched an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the shipwreck, which occurred in the Senegalese department of Kébémer, in the Louga region. Governor Ndèye Nguénar Mbodj traveled this Sunday to the area to oversee on the ground the identification and conservation tasks for the remains of those who died.