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Rescue officials in Niger have said that 92 illegal African migrants were found dead on the Sahara Desert after their vehicle broke down during their journey.

The migrants, mostly women and children were believed to have died out of thirsty and 87 of the bodies were buried in accordance with Islamic custom on late Thursday.

Rescue worker, Almoustapha Alhacen told the Reuter African Service that 52 children, 33 women and seven men from Niger were found on the route from the northern mining town of Arlit to the Algerian border.

It’s the first time I’ve seen anything like it, it is hard to understand what these women and children were doing there’’. Mr. Alhacen said.

Many of the bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition and had been partly devoured by animals, according to local reporters.

The migrants had set off in two trucks from Arlit toward Tamanrasset in Algeria After one truck broke down, the second turned back to look for help but was stranded and the passengers tried to return by foot.

But a little girl from Niger, who survived the journey, told the BBC’s Newsday program that her mother and siblings all died out of thirsty after their vehicle broke down on the desert. She blamed the death on the drivers of the trucks and accused them of maltreatment.

“The drivers of the trucks beat us when we complained of thirst, they were having water in some water tanks but they kept it for themselves alone, a lot of us died in the process, I lost my mother and all my siblings….it was so terrible’’, she said.

Northern Niger lies on a major corridor for illegal migration and people-trafficking from sub-Saharan African into North Africa and across the Mediterranean into Europe.

Most of those who make the dangerous journey on ancient open-topped trucks are young African men in search of work in Europe.

Many people flee poverty in Niger, ranked by the United Nations as the least-developed country on Earth. Some work in neighboring Libya and Algeria to save money before returning home.

But most now try to make the Mediterranean crossing from North Africa to Southern Europe, many losing their lives when their rickety boats are wrecked.

More than 500 people are believed to have died in two shipwrecks off southern Italy this month and have generated a lot of arguments about how African governments should handle migration issues.

Issaka Adams / NationalTurk Africa News

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