Families distraught in Senegal after latest migrant shipwreck | AFP

On a vast beach in northeastern Senegal, Ibrahima Diaw expresses disbelief while gazing at the shattered remains of a pirogue, a rickety boat his son boarded hoping to reach Europe, but that instead led to his death. Rescuers pulled 39 lifeless bodies from the idyllic fine-sand beaches after the pirogue capsized on Friday -- one of the country's deadliest migration tragedies in recent years.

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