The death toll from a tragic migrant boat sinking off Senegal’s Atlantic coast near Lompoul climbed to 39 after rescue teams recovered four additional bodies along the shoreline. The wooden pirogue had departed from Saint-Louis bound for Spain’s Canary Islands before capsizing in rough waters, leaving its shattered hull washed ashore in two pieces. Emergency services patrolled a 25-kilometer stretch of coastline during a multi-day search operation, reporting only a single survivor while authorities opened a formal judicial investigation into the tragedy.
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