Senegalese authorities on Monday brought home 37 migrants who were rescued off the coast of Cape Verde last week after their boat was stranded without fuel in the Atlantic Ocean for weeks.
The survivors, mainly from the fishing village of Fass Boye, landed on Monday evening. Some were taken out of the plane on stretchers, too weak to stand after their ordeal.
Authorities organised their repatriation from the Cape Verde island of Sal, where a Senegalese doctor who helped translate between survivors and authorities explained the boat ran out of fuel. It had drifted at sea until a Spanish fishing vessel"Some said it lasted eight days, others 12. Their food ran out very fast," the doctor, Medoune Ndiaye, told reporters in Sal before boarding.
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