Authorities recovered the bodies of more than a dozen migrants in the sea off the coast of Melilla, a Spanish city that shares a border with Morocco. Passengers aboard a Spanish ship spotted the bodies on Saturday, a spokesperson for Melilla said, according to The Guardian. During their search, they found at least twenty bodies but the exact toll has not yet been announced, the BBC reports. In 2017, more than 119,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Italy by sea and 2,832 died on their way to the country. In 2016, the agency recorded more than 181,000 sea arrivals in Italy.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 04, 2018 21:11 UTC