Eight people presumed to be African migrants on their way to the United States have drowned in recent days in southern Nicaragua, Nicaraguan authorities said, according to dpa. The National Police said seven men and a woman drowned in the Sapoa River in the southern province of Rivas, near the Costa Rican border. The deaths bring to nine the suspected African migrants who have died in the last week in Nicaragua, after the death of an unidentified man July 27 in the southern city of Jinotepe. At least 2,000 migrants, many from Africa, have arrived in Costa Rica in recent weeks with the intent to cross into Nicaragua and onward to the United States, Costa Rican authorities said.
