Madrid: Walking Borders, a migrant rights organization, claimed Thursday that up to 50 migrants may have drowned while trying to get from West Africa to Spain by boat.
According to the Madrid and Navarra-based nonprofit, Moroccan police on Wednesday rescued 36 people from a boat that had left Mauritania on January 2 and had carried 86 migrants, including 66 Pakistanis.
According to the rights group, it reported the missing boat to authorities in all participating nations six days ago.
According to the relatives of the Pakistani refugees who perished, the boat sailed to Spain on January 2. They claimed that the boat had been anchored in the ocean and that the human traffickers were requesting additional money.
