MADRID: Spain's Maritime Rescue Service says it found 11 dead migrants in a boat off the country's southern coast and rescued 33 other passengers.
All the migrants - the survivors were 29 men and four women - were from sub-Saharan Africa, a spokeswoman with the service told The Associated Press.
Rescuers had been looking for the boat about 11 miles south of the coast in Almeria for two days, said the official, who was not authorized to be named in media reports.
A Spanish navy scientific research vessel found the drifting boat in the area, east of the Strait of Gibraltar, in the early hours of Thursday.
According to the U.N., more than 61,500 migrants, who often flee violence or poverty, have arrived in Spain since the beginning of 2018, nearly 55,000 of them by sea.
