89 migrants die, dozens missing when boat capsizes off Mauritania

Nouakchott, Mauritania — Nearly 90 migrants bound for Europe died when their boat capsized earlier this week off the coast of Mauritania, the state news agency and a local official said Thursday. Dozens more remain missing. "The Mauritanian coast guard recovered the bodies of 89 people aboard a large traditional fishing boat that capsized on Monday, July 1, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean" about 4 kilometers from the country's southwest city of Ndiago, the state news agency said. The coast guard rescued nine people...