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World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Boat Carrying Migrants Capsizes


Spanish rescue crews pulled 48 migrants to safety after their wooden boat was spotted struggling in large waves south of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, but 50 others were missing and feared drowned. The survivors were handed over to the Red Cross in the Canaries. The accident is one of the deadliest recorded by the Spanish authorities since a wave of small vessels crammed with would-be immigrants began traveling from Africa to Europe in recent years.

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