Nearly 50 survivors of a migrant boat tragedy last month that left 25 people dead in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar have arrived back in Somalia and were received by government officials. The survivors aged 17 to 50 wore outfits Saturday made of fabric with the Somali national flag colors.
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Bodies of migrants who were washed away after two boats capsized are seen on the shore of the Madagascar coast in the Indian Ocean, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. The survivors aged 17 to 50 wore outfits made of fabric with the Somali national flag colors as they disembarked from a plane in the capital, Mogadishu , visibly relieved to return to safety.
The survivors told The Associated Press that they were stranded in the ocean for 13 days after their boat’s engines failed. “We were split into two small boats. The engine broke down, and we drifted at sea for 13 days with no functioning engine. We had no food or water, and the dates we had ran out during those 13 days. We survived by catching some fish,” he said.Voting underway for presidential election in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland
The boats left from a beach near the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Nov. 2 with 73 people on board and were believed to be headed to the French region of Mayotte, according to Jean-Edmond Randrianantenaina, the head of Madagascar’s Maritime Ports Agency. Mayotte, an archipelago, is around 1,600 kilometers from Mogadishu.
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