Migrants drown on Canaries trip

Twenty migrants have drowned while trying to reach the Canary Islands, survivors of a boat sinking have told Spanish police.
The survivors – seven adults and four children – said they were picked up by a merchant ship after their boat broke up on the high seas before dawn.

They said they were then brought to a port on the Gran Canaria.

Some 25,000 migrants, mostly from west Africa, have arrived in the Canary Islands this year.