Reports says that 52 people are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean about 220 kilometres off Spain’s Canary Islands.
Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said a 30-year-old woman was the sole survivor saved on Thursday from the sinking dinghy, which had left Africa a week earlier carrying 53 migrants and refugees.
A merchant ship had earlier spotted the vessel south of the Canary Islands and alerted Spanish emergency services, according to Al Jazeera.
The woman was clinging to the sinking craft with a dead man and a dead woman next to her, a rescue service official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Asssociated Press.
