Nabody, 2-year-old girl from Mali, dies after Spain sea rescue

Toddler passes away at hospital, days after being resuscitated by emergency workers after being rescued from packed boat off Canary Islands.

A two-year-old girl from Mali who had to be resuscitated after being rescued from a boat packed with people off Spain’s Canary Islands last week has died in hospital, according to local authorities. Nabody was one of 52 people from sub-Saharan African countries who were found on Tuesday on board a vessel near the island of Gran Canaria, after spending five days in the Atlantic Ocean following their departure from Dakhla on the Western Sahara coast. The group, which included nine children, was then brought by Spain’s maritime rescue service to the port of Arguineguin.