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Dozens of African migrants bound for Europe are missing and believed dead after a shipwreck off the coast of west Africa.
Coastguard officials from the Atlantic island of Cape Verde have rescued 38 people on a vessel that had left the town of Fass Boye in western Senegal a month earlier with more than 100 people on board, officials said, part of a recent migrant surge from Africa into Europe.
The ship was rescued some 385 miles off the west African coast, according to the Senegalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that more than 60 people are believed to have drowned.
The Spanish migrant activist group Caminando Fronteras said the ship was a large fishing vessel that left Senegal on July 10 with more than 100 migrants on board.
IOM spokeswoman Sada Msehli said that 63 passengers were allegedly killed and 38 survived, including four children between the ages of 12 and 16.
