The incident occurred in the delta of the Salom River (southwest) when the boat was carrying nearly a hundred people, mostly nationals of south Saharan countries.

The interception of the vessel is part of the daily routine of several African states committed with countries of the European Union, after economic compensation, to prevent the traffic of people through their territorial waters.

Both the North Atlantic, where the Salom River flows into, and the Mediterranean Sea, have become in recent years the graves of thousands of people trying to reach European coasts in search of opportunities to improve their livelihoods.

Human trafficking is a lucrative business of transnational criminal organizations that every year earn millions of dollars paid by candidates to migrate without documents.

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