9 corpses found adrift in boat off Brazil were likely migrants from Mauritania

16/4/2024 19:38

        Brazilian police investigating the grim discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania.
        
        Fishermen off Brazil's northern coastal state of Para found the boat adrift</a> Saturday in the Atlantic ocean. Brazil's Federal police said in a statement late Monday it had recovered nine dead in total.
        
        "Documents and objects found near the bodies indicate that the victims were migrants from the African continent, from the region of Mauritania and Mali," the statement read. Police added that other nationalities could be among the deceased.