Niger human smuggling toll rises to 92
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Authorities in the nation of Niger have recovered 92 bodies of migrants who died of dehydration after the trucks they were traveling in broke down in a desolate no-man’s-land at the edge of the Sahara desert, officials said yesterday.
The dozens of people were being smuggled last month along a well-established trafficking route used to move contraband, including people, from Niger to neighboring Algeria, said Colonel Garba Makido, the governor of the Nigerien province of Agadez, south of where the bodies were found.
Officials were only alerted to the incident when a lone woman managed to stumble out of the desert earlier this month. She was picked up by a passing car which took her to Arlit, around 50 kilometers south of where the first truck broke down.
The next day, a father walking with his two young daughters also arrived. But his children perished of thirst a few kilometers outside of Arlit, said Makido. Twenty-one people survived, most of whom made their way to Algerian border towns.
“This is a true tragedy,” said Makido. “We plan to do everything we can to find the truck drivers.”
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