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On Saturday, 27th of October, the Royal Navy announced that it rescued more than 300 migrants who were carried by 16 boats, reports AFP quoting Map news agency.
The boats were intercepted on Thursday night and the authorities assisted the migrants off the Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean.
Rescue operations were carried out on Friday too and «all the migrants were brought back to various ports of the kingdom safe and sound», said a military source.
Omar Naji, president of the Nador office of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights said, however, that two migrants died while trying to reach Spain.
«The dead bodies of two young Moroccan migrants, thrown out of the sea, were transferred Thursday to the city hospital», he said without being able to say whetherthey died before or during the interception of the boat.
AFP recalls that more Moroccan and sub-Saharan migrants are trying to reach Europe by sea, or by crossing the fences separating Morocco from the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.
According to the International Organization for Migration, 43,000 migrants have reached Spain since the beginning of this year, including 38,000 by sea.
