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14 immigrants lost off Motril coast
By h.b. - Jul 8, 2008 - 8:57 AM
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Two of the rescued immigrants in Motril - Photo EFE
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23 immigrants were rescued from a boat carrying 37 Nigerians trying to reach Spain.
The search for 14 missing immigrants was called off on Monday night because of a lack of light, and after the Coastguard said it was ‘improbable’ that any of them would still be alive. An area of 837 square kilometres had been searched without success.

37 immigrants were travelling on the boat which got into difficulties 60 miles off the coast of Motril just as they were about to be rescued by the Spanish authorities at 3am on Monday morning. Waves in the area were more than four metres high in what the rescue services described as very complicated conditions.

23 people, all of them Nigerians, have been rescued. They told the Spanish authorities that they had set sail from Morocco last Saturday.

An aerial search has been re-established this morning.

230 immigrants have lost their lives trying to reach the coasts of Spain so far this year, out of some 7,000 who have attempted a crossing.

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