Death toll in Senegal ferry tragedy grows

THE death toll from Senegal’s ferry disaster could top 1,000 after President Abdoulaye Wade conceded yesterday that children under five would have gone un-ticketed – and thus apparently uncounted in the death toll.

“It might happen the definitive number is over 1,034,” President Wade told CNN. “There will be prosecutions, of course,” he said.

Today 970 of 1,034 reported aboard the state-run MS Joola were confirmed dead or missing and presumed dead.