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9 dead, 48 still missing nearly a day after migrant boat sinking off Canary Islands - National | Globalnews.ca

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48 migrants missing since boat sank near Spanish island of El Hierro are still missing, authorities say.

Three patrol boats and three helicopters are taking part in a renewed search for the others.

Nine people, one of them a child, had earlier been confirmed as dead after the boat sank in the early hours of Saturday morning .

The migrants were from Mali , Mauritania and Senegal , Spanish authorities said.

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