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34 migrants, including 20 children, found dead in Niger desert:

NIAMEY, June 16, (APP/AFP) – The bodies of 34
migrants, including 20 children, who were trying to reach neighbouring Algeria were found in a Niger desert, authorities said Wednesday.
“Thirty-four people, including five men, nine women and twenty children died trying to cross the desert,” Niger’s Interior Ministry said in a statement.