Forty-nine people have died from thirst in Niger after their truck broke down in a remote area of the Sahara Desert. Two survivors managed to reach a water source and alert authorities.

Forty-nine people died of thirst in Niger when a truck broke down in a remote part of the Sahara desert, leaving its passengers stranded without water. Two survivors managed to walk 50 kilometres through the desert to a water source and then to the town of Assamaka, where they alerted authorities.