Niger authorities rescued 67 West African migrants in Niger’s northern desert this week after traffickers left them there without food or water, a humanitarian source said on Friday. One of the migrants later died.
“Sixty-seven migrants near death were saved (Wednesday) by defence and security forces near the town of Seguedine in the middle of the desert,” the source said.
The migrants had left the town of Agadez “on three vehicles” before being “abandoned without provisions by the traffickers,” the source added.