DAKAR: Senegal's army said Saturday it had stopped a boat carrying more than 200 migrants trying to reach Europe, after nearly 90 died attempting the dangerous Atlantic crossing earlier this month. The boat stopped by the patrol boat in fishing waters near Lompoul in northwestern Senegal on Friday was carrying 202 people, including five women and a minor, the army posted on X. In early July, a boat with about 170 people traveling from Senegal capsized off the coast of Mauritania and killed nearly 90 people.
