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Berlin A boat carrying 40 people has capsized off the coast of Mauritania, a UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spokesman tweeted on Thursday.
“Tragic news coming in of a shipwreck off the coast of Mauritania.
Some 40 people were reportedly on board,” Charlie Yaxley, a UNHCR spokesman, wrote on Twitter.
“New shipwreck off the coast of Nouadhibou #Mauritania of approximately 40 persons on board, there is one survivor (from Guinea),” Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR Special Representative for the Central Mediterranean, also wrote on Twitter.
“These are the awful consequences of immoral and unscrupulous smugglers and traffickers arranging these desperate sea journeys,” Yaxley wrote. (DPA)
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