At least 21 people have died after a boat carrying ‌migrants sank off the Senegalese coast, the interior ministry said on Sunday.

Authorities had rescued one survivor and found 21 bodies as of ⁠Saturday evening, the ministry said in a statement on X

The accident occurred off Kebemer, a town about 180 km north of Dakar

Search and rescue operations were continuing as authorities looked for possible additional survivors

The boat ‌was ⁠carrying people seeking to migrate irregularly, the statement said. It did not say how many were on board

Thousands of ⁠people have died in recent years attempting to reach Spain's Canary Islands from ⁠West Africa, including 635 in the first five months of this ⁠year, according to migrant rights group Walking Borders

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