Death toll from migrant boat sinking off Senegal rises to 39

The ​death toll from the sinking of a boat carrying migrants off Senegal's coast has risen to ‌39, the official Senegalese Press Agency (APS) said on Monday, as search and rescue efforts continued and activists demanded an investigation into the government's response to irregular migration.

(Reporting and writing by Clement Bonnerot; Additional reporting by Ngouda Dione ‌and Diadie ‌Ba; Editing by David Holmes, Sharon Singleton ​and Susan Fenton)