Women migrants drown off Moroccan coast
2009-09-20
At least eight harragas drowned Saturday (September 19th) when their boat capsized off Morocco's northern coast, local and international press reported. "The bodies of seven women, one of whom was pregnant, and a man, all from the sub-Sahara region, were transferred to Tangier on Saturday afternoon," AFP quoted a security source as saying. Of the estimated 40 people who boarded the small vessel in the Moroccan village of Benyounech, a dozen were found alive near Perejil Island by Moroccan and Spanish rescue teams.
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