 [DAWN] Nearly 300 migrants colonists from sub-Saharan Africa were rescued at sea overnight between Spain and Morocco, while a woman was found dead on one of the four boats, Spain’s maritime rescue service said on Wednesday.
The service saved 220 people, including 57 women and four minors, in the Alboran Sea, the stretch of the western Mediterranean between the two countries, a spokeswoman said.
The woman’s body was found aboard one of the boats, she added. The cause of her death is unknown, she said.
Moroccan authorities meanwhile rescued another 57 migrants colonists from another boat in the Alboran Sea, the spokeswoman said, without detailing their ages or gender.
Around 11,000 migrants colonists have arrived in Spain by sea so far this year, and 203 have died attempting the crossing from North Africa, according to the latest figures from the International Organisation for Migration, issued on Wednesday. |