Nineteen African migrants drown off Morocco

Nineteen African illegal migrants drowned yesterday when their rickety boat capsized off Morocco's southern Atlantic coast on its way to Spanish Canary islands, state news agency MAP reported. Their bodies washed up off the Atlantic-coast city of...

Nineteen African illegal migrants drowned yesterday when their rickety boat capsized off Morocco's southern Atlantic coast on its way to Spanish Canary islands, state news agency MAP reported.

Their bodies washed up off the Atlantic-coast city of Tarfaya, located at 1,150 kilometres south of the capital Rabat, it added. Two migrants survived the capsizing, it added. MAP gave no details on the nationalities of the victims, saying only they were from sub-Saharan African countries.

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