More than twenty migrants die in a shipwreck in Madagascar

Twenty-two migrants aboard a boat en route to the French island of Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean, died in a shipwreck on Saturday off the coast of Madagascar, Malagasy maritime authorities announced on Monday.

Forty-seven people were said to have taken the boat clandestinely, intending to reach Mayotte, but it was shipwrecked.

Twenty-three of the passengers were able to be saved.

“Twenty-two dead bodies were found,” the Port, Maritime and River Authority (APMF) said in a statement.