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Cape Verde boat survivors say some jumped out to try to reach land

Some took parts of wooden seats for buoyancy after watching friends die on drifting vessel

The Guardian - UK

Cape Verde boat disaster: vessel drifted for month after alarm raised, says NGO

Walking Borders said it told authorities in four countries on 20 July about vessel with more than 100 asylum seekers onboard

The Guardian - UK

At least 63 migrants feared dead after boat found off Cape Verde

More that 60 migrants headed for Spain are missing and feared dead after coast guards off the Atlantic island of Cape Verde rescued 38 people whose boat was found drifting.

Radio France Internationale

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More than 60 Senegalese migrants are dead or missing after month-long voyage for Spain

An estimated 56 people are missing at sea and presumed dead

The Independent UK

More than 60 feared dead after migrant boat capsizes in Atlantic

Thirty-eight survivors were rescued near Cape Verde, 620 kilometres off the coast of West Africa, on Tuesday

Evening Standard

Dozens of Senegalese migrants are dead or missing after their boat is rescued with 38 survivors

Dozens of people are dead or missing following an attempt to migrate from Senegal by sea

The Independent UK

Migrant boats carrying 300 people have been missing for 15 days near Canary Islands

A Spanish aid group has said at least 300 people travelling in three boats from Senegal to Spain are missing and has slammed the search response as being inadequate

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Boats carrying more than 300 migrants missing near Canary Islands

‘The families are very worried. There are about 300 people from the same area of Senegal’

The Independent UK

Three boats carrying roughly 300 migrants missing during 1000-mile effort to reach Canary Islands

At least 300 people who were travelling on three migrant boats from Senegal to Spain's Canary Islands have disappeared, migrant aid group Walking Borders said on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Spanish investigation launched into fatal boat rescue delay

Spanish and Moroccan authorities blamed for 12-hour delay after up to 60 people seen stranded en route to Canary Islands

The Guardian - UK

Dinghy with dozens of migrants on board sinks off Spain’s Canary Islands

Migration advocacy groups have criticised Spain and Morocco for not intervening soon enough to rescue a small boat headed for Spain's Canary Islands that sank Wednesday. At least 30 migrants are feared drowned.

Radio France Internationale

Spain probing African migrant voyage after reported Moroccan gunfire

(This May 26 story has been refiled to remove the reference to Maleno as Morocco-based in paragraph 10)

Reuters

Melilla border ‘stampede’ death toll rises to 37 as police accused of ‘aggressive violence’

More than 2,000 migrants stormed the area on Friday and around 500 managed to get into a border control area

The Independent UK

Calls for investigation over deaths in Moroccan-Spanish border crossing

NGOs say toll could be as high as 37 after hundreds of people break into border control area in attempt to reach Melilla enclave

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Spain Rescues 319 Migrants at Sea, 18 More Feared Drowned

Emergency services on Spain's Canary Islands say that 319 people, including 59 women and 24 children, were rescued from seven different boats trying to reach the archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, while a campaign group is claiming that at least 18 migrants have died. Spanish rescue vessels reached the boats…

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