Somali migrants recount ordeal of 16 days helpless, drifting at sea

[Deeq A.]

In the early evening of November 11, after four days at sea, the passengers of two boats carrying 75 Somali migrants spotted distant lights and a hill. They could hear the muezzin calling for the Maghreb, Muslim evening prayers. Their destination, Mayotte, a French island in the Indian Ocean, was finally in sight.

Source: Hiiraan Online