Brazilian fishermen found a small boat with several bodies in an advanced state of decomposition. The bodies are in such poor condition that it is not even known how many there are.

The authorities suspect that they may be foreigners because there is no news of missing fishermen in that area. The NGO Caminando Fronteras, which is a reference for boats with immigrants that make the crossing between Africa and the Spanish coast, points out that the boat located in Brazil could be a Mauritanian canoe in view of its elongated shape, white hull and interior blue.. In 2021, a team of Associated Press journalists documented the arrival in the Caribbean and Brazilian waters of seven ghost ships, filled with bodies, that had apparently set sail from the Atlantic coast of Africa. Possibly they were heading to Spain, the closest European country. The mission is moving against the clock, as one of the rescuers explained to the Brazilian media G1: “It is a mission that requires haste”