Puerto de la Estaca, Spain, Sept 28, 2024 (AFP) - Dozens missing, 9 dead in migrant boat wreck off Spanish Canaries

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2024-09-28

Nine people are confirmed drowned and at least 48 are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off Spain's Canary Islands overnight, rescue services said Saturday, the latest in a series of such disasters off the west coast of Africa. Sea rescue teams said in a statement they had answered a distress call off El Hierro, one of the islands in the Atlantic archipelago, shortly after midnight. They managed to save 27 people out of 84 on board.......

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