About 40 migrants feared dead after boat capsizes off Western Sahara: Report

A boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands capsized, killing 42 people, said a Spanish non-governmental organisation.

About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish non-governmental organisation, said on Friday. "Tragedy: forty-two people, among those thirty women, eight children and four men, died when a boat capsized off the coast of Dakhla," tweeted Helena Maleno of Caminando Fronteras, which monitors migratory flows.