Five Mauritanians missing after coastal boat collision | News

DAKAR, Sept 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Five Mauritanians are missing after two fishing boats collided off the coast of the west African country, the Mauritanian coastguard and Spanish maritime rescue service told AFP on Saturday. Twenty-one people, including three Spaniards, were saved from the Atlantic waves after Friday's crash between the Gambia-flagged "Grey Whale" and the Mauritanian "Tafra 3" ship, a Mauritanian coastguard source told AFP. The Spanish rescuers had earlier given the name of the first boat as the "Right Whale" to AFP. After the "Tafra 3" sank following the collision, five of its 26-strong crew went missing, the source and a spokesman for the Spanish maritime rescue service said. "There are five disappeared people of Mauritanian nationality; three...