Seven African migrants dead, 70 rescued from Morocco shipwreck

Seven
African migrants died on Monday and 70 other people were rescued when their
boat sank while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Morocco to Spain.

 According to a military official, the rescued
migrants, including 10 women and a baby, were brought back to the Moroccan
coastal city of Nador and taken to Morocco’s coast guard for medical treatment.

It was the
latest of several dangerous migrant boat crossings on the rough sea passage
between Morocco and Spain.