The man who purportedly owns the boat that caught fire whilst trying to transport young men to Spain sometime in November that resulted to many deaths is said to have disappeared, according to the police.

At least eleven corpses were found in Banjul at a tributary linked to the River Gambia where the boat waiting to carry about fifty youths to Spain caught fire.

At the time of the accident sources said about thirty people escaped and twenty others were reported missing. So far only eleven have been recovered from sea.

The spokesman of the Gambia Police Force told Foroyaa that the boat owner is a Senegalese national who suddenly disappeared after the disaster.

The name of the purported boat owner is not known and little is known about him.