Horrific deaths: 87 dead migrants including 48 children died of thirst in the Niger desert

Seven men, 32 women and 48 children were found near the Algerian border and their bodies were badly decomposed and had been eaten, possibly by jackals
According to Daily Mail
Nigerien officials said on Monday that dozens of migrants most of them women and children, had died of thirst in the Sahara desert earlier this month while crossing the Sahara on their way to Europe.
The workers said that the migrants, most of them women and children, died of thirst after their vehicles broke down near Niger’s border with Algeria. “There was a dead woman holding her baby,’’ rescue volunteer, Al-Moustapha Alhacen said.

The migrants had left Arlit, 150 km south of the Niger-Algeria border, in two trucks at the end of September, according to Mr. Alhacen.


'The first vehicle broke down. The second returned to Arlit to get a spare part after getting all the migrants it was carrying to alight, but it too broke down,' said the source. 'We think that the migrants were in the desert for seven days and on the fifth day, they began to leave the broken down vehicle in search of a well,' said the source. However, 21 people had survived, the source said, including a man who walked to Arlit and a woman who was saved by a driver who came across her in the desert and took her to the same city.