Fifty-eight African migrants died on Thursday after their boat capsized en route to Europe in one of the deadliest disasters this year among people making the perilous journey to Europe.
The boat that left Gambia a week ago had been carrying at least 150 people, including women and children. It was headed toward the Canary Islands when it tried to approach the Mauritanian coast to get fuel and food - Laura Lungarotti, chief of mission in the West African nation with the U.N. migration agency, told The Associated Press.
Scores of survivors who swam to safety through the rough Atlantic Ocean waters have received care in Mauritania.