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"The wanted group must be on land, hidden in caves or smuggled into the city" of Nouadhibou (northwest), said at a press conference the regional director of police, Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Taleb
"Seventy-five other Senegalese, including two women, were intercepted on the way to or near the boat, which washed up on Mauritanian shores after five days at sea", he added.
Part of Senegal, the boat, attempting to reach the archipelago of the Canary Islands, suffered an engine failure off Morocco and was "swept away by the swell towards Mauritanian waters , where she ended up stranded "Monday night, told a press conference a young Senegalese migrant.
According to the head of the police, several passengers were in a state of" extreme fatigue "and received care, waiting for their repatriation Senegal, expected by Thursday.
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On Sunday, the Mauritanian coastguard had already towed 'to the capital, Nouakchott, a boat, seized with 125 migrants on board, all of Senegalese nationality, crashed engine in Mauritanian waters, said a security source.
In Senegal itself, 25 candidates to the emigration, from the center and west of the country, were arrested Tuesday as they waited to board a house in a working-class neighborhood in the suburbs of St. Louis, according to local police
The Canary Islands, a hundred kilometers from the Moroccan coast, had been in the mid-2000s one of the main routes of illegal immigration to the European Union.
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African migrants then traveled further along the Mediterranean route to Spain or the Mediterranean. Italy aboard makeshift boats.
In recent times, while migrants face enormous difficulties in crossing Libya, northern Senegal is experiencing a "recrudescence of the number of departures", organized by smugglers often with the complicity of fishermen locals, according to an officer of the Senegalese border police.
With AFP
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