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The Latest: 60 Migrants Rescued at Sea by Spain
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY — Apr 17, 2016, 1:35 PM ET
The Latest on Europe's migration crisis
Spain's maritime rescue service says it has rescued 60 people who had been crammed into two small boats at the southwestern end of the Mediterranean Sea.
One boat containing 21 occupants was located Sunday morning and another with 39 on board was found in the evening, the service said on its official Twitter account.
A Spanish navy ship had joined in the search Saturday for one of the vessels that was transporting migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa.
Sunday's two operations bring the total of migrants rescued off Spain's southern coastline over the weekend to 136.
Thousands of migrants try to reach Spain each year either by attempting to enter the country's north African enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta or by making perilous sea crossings to the mainland.
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