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Brazilian police investigate deaths of boat full of corpses, likely African migrants
Police help move a boat that was carrying decomposing corpses to the Vila do Castelo port in Braganca, Brazil, April 15, 2024

BRAZILIAN police are investigating the grim discovery of a boat full of corpses, saying that the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania.

Fishermen off Brazil’s northern coastal state of Para found the boat adrift Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean.

Brazil’s federal police said in a statement that it had recovered nine dead in total.

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