At least seven dead and 38 rescued from migrant boat near Spain’s Canary Islands

Empty boats used by migrants are moored at the port of Arguineguin in the Canary island of Gran Canaria, Spain (Felipe Dana/AP)

Two bodies have been found in a migrant boat making the voyage from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands, and survivors said five other people died and were put overboard, maritime rescuers and the Red Cross said.

There were 38 survivors. The migrants had departed from Nouakchott, Mauritania’s capital, 10 days earlier, according to Jose Antonio Rodriguez Verona, a Spanish Red Cross coordinator.