Canary immigrants drown after boat capsizes

A boat carrying Africans illegally trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands capsized off Mauritania’s coast, killing at least four and leaving more than two dozen missing and presumed dead, officials said today.

Canary immigrants drown after boat capsizes

A boat carrying Africans illegally trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands capsized off Mauritania’s coast, killing at least four and leaving more than two dozen missing and presumed dead, officials said today.

Rescue-workers saved 14 people from Saturday’s wreck said Madine Ba, the official in charge of maritime affairs in the northern city of Nouadhibou.

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