The African woman, whose body was found dead and floating in the sea on Monday, 37 kilometres off the coast of Fuerteventura, had been in the water for between 15 and 20 days, according to the forensic experts who have examined her body. She was wearing a life jacket when a fishing boat found it, shows significant deterioration and did not carry any type of identification document, sources from the Las Palmas Institute of Legal Medicine have informed news agency EFE.
Forensics have not ruled out that she was an occupant of a boat heading for the Canaries, but for now they have no clue to link that woman to any specific shipwreck. In the last two weeks, no wreck has been documented in that area of the Canary Islands closest to Africa, but an inflatable boat that requested urgent help by phone through the NGO Caminando Fronteras on March 24th was reported, after having left Tarfaya (Morocco) a few hours earlier with 50 people on board, including ten women and four minors.
