Niger: Bodies of 13 Migrants Found

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/world/africa/niger-bodies-of-13-migrants-found.html

Version 0 of 1.

The bodies of at least 13 migrants from Niger who were abandoned by smugglers in the Sahara last week have been found in southern Algeria, several officials said Friday. An additional 33 people from the same convoy, most of them women and children, are also believed to have died, although their bodies have not yet been found, said Alat Mougaskia, a representative of the Niger government in the northern town of Arlit. “These people appear to have gone looking for shelter, but died from the lack of food and water,” an official from the Niger military said. Niger sits at a crossroads of migrant routes linking North Africa to the rest of the continent.