34 migrants drown in Mediterranean shipwreck, 26 survivors — UN

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“The boat was adrift since Sunday with 60 people aboard..." IOM spokesman said A Moroccan official said 11 bodies had been recovered GENEVA/RABAT: At least 34 migrants have died in a shipwreck in the western Mediterranean, which 26 people survived, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday, citing the Moroccan navy and a Spanish aid agency. Joel Millman, spokesman of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), told Reuters: “The boat was adrift since Sunday with 60 people aboard. At least 34 have drowned, it looks like there were 26 survivors.” The information came from the Moroccan navy and a Spanish non-governmental oragnization Caminando Fronteras, he said. A Moroccan official, asking not to be named, said 11 bodies had been recovered, adding that the dead were all migrants, not Moroccan nationals.

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