After a month at sea, 37 Senegalese survivors of a deadly migration attempt to Spain return home

By NDEYE SENE MBENGUE and ZANE IRWIN
Associated Press

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese authorities say 37 migrants who were rescued off the coast of Cape Verde have been brought back home. A boat carrying more than 100 people is believed to have set off from Senegal toward Spain’s Canary Islands on July 10. More than 60 migrants are feared dead from the ill-fated voyage. Families greeted the survivors on Monday at a military airstrip in Dakar, Senegal’s capital. The remains of seven people found dead on the boat were buried in Cape Verde, where one survivor also remains hospitalized. In Senegal’s coastal community of Fass Boye, people say worsening employment prospects are driving young men to board large wooden boats called pirogues on dangerous journeys to Europe.