According to the UN Organization for Migration (IOM), the bodies of 27 migrants who migrated north in the summer of 2021 have been found in the Sahara Desert. People died of thirst in the desert. Among them were four minors.
The group is said to have set out 17 months ago from the town of Moussoro, about 300 kilometers northeast of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, believed to be heading for Libya. They probably would have gotten lost in the desert with a small truck before the car broke down and people were stranded without any help.
Many deaths are not registered
More than 5,600 migrants have died or disappeared in the Sahara since 2014, according to the organization. There have been at least 149 deaths so far this year. Many deaths go unrecorded and the families of those who have disappeared have been in limbo for years or forever as to what might have happened to their loved ones.
Source: Krone
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