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Around 50 migrants feared drowned in waters off Moroccan coast

Around 50 migrants are feared to have drowned in waters off the Moroccan coast. The Spanish coastguard has saidthat rescue services managed to retrieve three exhausted and disorientated men from a half-sunk rubber dinghy near Spain's Alboran Island.<br/><br/>It is believed many more were originally on board. A coastguard spokeswoman said they had likely drowned, adding that rescuers were still surveying the water where the boat was found. <br/><br/>The survivors are aged between 17 and 25, and from sub-Saharan Africa. The coastguard said in a statement that the boat had been drifting for several days after leaving the northern coast of Morocco.

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