155 Sub-saharan migrants arrested in Western Sahara

Moroccan security services arrested 155 Sub-saharan migrants Sunday as they attempted to get illegally to the Canary Islands (Spain) on board makeshift boats, Moroccan radio announced here Monday. According to the radio, the boats were intercepted by a unit of the Royal Morocc an Navy at a point 210 kilometres to the south of Dakhla, in the Atlantic Ocean. Those arrested are 85 Senegalese, 38 Mauritanians, 29 Malians, two Ivorians and one Congolese according to Panapress