2 dead in boat adrift in Alboran sea

Another immigrant tragedy took place in the Alboran sea between Morocco and Spain. Two bodies were recovered on Friday from a boat adrift with 49 immigrants on board.

The boat was rescued by Moroccan gendarmerie patrol boat assisted by Spanish sea rescue workers, Spanish ministerial sources said. The drama took place on the heels of the capsizing of a motorized dinghy, overloaded with immigrants, off the coast of the Moroccan city of Al Hoceima on Thursday. Fourteen people of Sub-Saharan origin died in Thursday's accident. Seventeen survivors were found, and at least 40 passengers remain missing. The boat found Friday held 36 men and 12 women in addition to the victims. It had set off at one o'clock in the morning from the shore of Al Hoceima. A search began ten hours later when coastal authorities picked up a distress signal from the boat. The Spanish patrol boat Salvamar Hamal, based in Motril, Granada, and the Serviola 302 airplane, based in Almeria, participated in the search. A Moroccan crew rescued the immigrants from the sea.

Saturday 27 October 2012

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