Thursday; June 16, 2016:The bodies of 34 migrants, involving 20 children, who were discarded by people smugglers as trying to reach neighboring Algeria were found in the Niger desert last week.

In Statement Niger's interior ministry said, “Thirty-four people, including five men, nine women and 20 children died trying to cross the desert,"

"They probably died of thirst, as is often the case, and they were found near Assamaka," he added.

"(The migrants) were abandoned by people smugglers," the statement added.

Thousands of against the law migrants have here in Algeria in current years, mostly from neighboring Mali and Niger.Many transit during Algeria headed for Europe.