2023-09-06 18:51:49
Located in the commune of Karantaba in the department of Goudomp, Sandiniéry is bereaved. The locality has just lost three of its sons, found dead drowned in the Casamance river.
Mouskéba Mandiang, a 70 year old, Sana Dramé 60 years old and a young Pope Mané aged 24, such is the list of deceased persons. A week following the tragedy, one of the boatmen decided to break the silence on these cases of drowning. He makes a point of specifying that all these people did not enjoy their mental faculty. So he disagrees with those who think that these people committed suicide because they had no control over their actions.
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In an interview granted to SeneNews, the man who ensures the crossing by canoe between Sandiniéry and Sédhiou specifies that the deceased are from the locality of Sandiniéry in the pakao. The bodies of these disabled people were buried beside the sea. Although Sana Dramé was mentally retarded, she sometimes communicates. These parents tried to cure him. But the disease has already taken over him. He sometimes goes to places of prayer and socializes with people.
« They are all from the village of Sandiniéry, a locality located in the region of Sédhiou. Sana Dramé, 60 years old, had already done her ablutions to join the place of Friday prayers. Afterwards he took another direction to find himself at the level of the river. His family members believed he was at the mosque. After the worshipers returned from the mosque, the parents went to look for him in the village. By nightfall he still hadn’t come home. The inhabitants have changed their search strategy. As the village is next to the Senegal River, some went towards the sea. To their surprise, the group that was at sea level found their clothes not far away. They understood that he drowned. But the body had not yet been pushed back by the water. It was on the third day that the sea pushed his body back to Devil’s Island. It is a locality located between Sandiniéry and Counaya “, implied our source
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According to him, all the bodies were found by the fishermen who did not touch them. Instead, they alerted the police. The body of Mouskéba Mandiang, 70, was found on the other side of the island towards Malandiancounda. Upon discovery, the fishermen alerted the gendarmes and firefighters. Mentally deficient Admittedly, Mouskéba Mandiang did not move around too much in the village.
Unlike Mouskéba Mandiang, Pape Sané is known for his illness. It happens to him many times to walk without his clothes in the streets of the village: The youngest Pope Mané is 24 years old. He was also mentally ill. People know him well in the area because of his mobility. Sometimes he happens to walk naked in the street. For his case his family does not know that he left the home. It was at the end of the day that his family members went looking for him. It was on the second day of searches that the fishermen discovered his body around 4 p.m. in the water. He was also pushed back by the sea, following 24 hours of research. Normally this is the time it takes for a body to appear on the surface of the water. All the bodies were found by the boatmen “, concluded the source.
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