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More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa.
Thirty-eight people, including children, were rescued, with footage showing them being helped ashore, some on stretchers, on the island of Sal.
Almost all those on board the boat, which was at sea for over a month, are thought to have been from Senegal.
Cape Verde officials have called for global action on migration to help prevent further loss of life.
The vessel was first spotted on Monday, police told the AFP news agency. Initial reports suggested that the boat had sunk but it was later clarified that it had been found drifting.
The wooden pirogue style boat was seen almost 320km (200 miles) off Sal, a part of Cape Verde, by a Spanish fishing boat, which then alerted authorities, police said.
The survivors include four children aged between 12 and 16, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
The boat left the Senegalese fishing village of Fass Boye on 10 July with 101 people on board, Senegal’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday, citing survivors.
Moda Samb, an elected official in the village, told AFP news agency nearly all those on the boat had grown up in the community and that some local families were still waiting to hear whether their relatives were among the survivors.
The ministry said it was liaising with authorities in Cape Verde to arrange the repatriation of Senegalese nationals.
The passengers’ other countries of origin reportedly include Sierra Leone and, in one case, Guinea-Bissau.
People in the small fishing community of Fass Boye are in shock – and there is a lot of anger too.
University student Moussa Diop, who lives here, told me he had three male cousins and a teenage nephew on the boat that left in secret last month. His sister had no idea her son was on the boat – and had been in a desperate state since his disappearance last month.
The first the family heard about their doomed voyage was when one of the cousins sent Mr Diop a WhatsApp video from Sal on Wednesday to tell them that three of them had made it and were in hospital – but one of the young cousins had died.
Mr Diop says sorrow for lost relatives and relief about those who have survived has boiled over into frustration. After news of the tragedy spread on Wednesday, people in the town began damaging cars and boats and they also set fire to the house of the mayor.
Young people blame a lack of opportunities and want the authorities to do more to help them.
Jose Moreira, a health official on Sal, said the survivors were improving and were being looked after, with a focus on rehydration and tests for conditions like malaria.
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