At least six people died after a boat capsized off Senegal over the weekend, a spokesperson for the West African country’s armed forces said on Monday, Report informs via Reuters.

The boat – a narrow, wooden fishing vessel known as a pirogue – was carrying around 100 migrants from the town of Mbour and it overturned after only 4 km of navigation, state broadcaster Radio Television Senegalaise (RTS) said earlier.

Four people were rescued but many are still missing, RTS said.

The armed forces spokesperson told Reuters the navy had sent a plane and two boats to search for the dead and survivors and that the searches were continuing on Monday.