Senegal’s navy says it has found 17 more bodies from a boat carrying refugees and migrants that sank off the West African country, raising the death toll to 26.

Navy says the search continues as many passengers from the vessel, which sank off the town of Mbour, remain missing.

The boat – a narrow, wooden fishing vessel known as a pirogue – was carrying more than 100 people from the town, and it capsized after sailing only 4km (2.5 miles), state broadcaster Radio Television Senegalaise said late on Sunday.