Eight migrants found dead in boat near Spain's Canary Islands


  • World
  • Sunday, 14 Nov 2021

Migrants wait to disembark from a Spanish coast guard vessel, in the port of Arguineguin, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, November 14, 2021. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

ARGUINEGUIN, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish coastguards found the bodies of eight African migrants in a boat which was drifting in the sea off Spain's Gran Canaria island on Sunday, the Canary Islands government said.

Sixty-two migrants, all of them men except a 12-year-old boy, were rescued by coastguards.

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