Twelve migrants have been found dead in a boat off southern Spain while 12 others are missing, the Spanish coastguard and the Red Cross said on Thursday.
About 30 others were found alive from the boat which rescue services had been searching for for two days in the sea between Spain’s southern Andalusia region and northern Morocco, a coastguard spokeswoman said.
“Eleven people were found dead on board and 33 alive” — four women and 29 men, she told AFP.
Rescuers took the migrants, who came from sub-Saharan Africa, to the Spanish port of Almeria early Thursday.
The hospital in Almeria said one more died, bringing the toll to to 12 — 10 men and two women, one of them pregnant.