Senegal village mourns scores lost on drifting migrant boat

FASS BOYE, Senegal (Reuters) - The brightly painted boats in the Senegalese fishing village of Fass Boye lay idle on Friday. The sound of wailing drifted from households out to the empty streets. Residents walked from home to home offering condolences to mourning families.

More than 100 people boarded a fishing boat there on July 10, bound, they hoped, for Europe. Like so many others that brave hundreds of miles of ocean each year, this one never arrived.