Africa: Migrants drown on Canaries trip

Twenty migrants have drowned while trying to reach the Canary Islands, survivors of a boat sinking have told Spanish police. The survivors - seven adults and four children - said they were picked up by a merchant ship after their boat broke up on the high seas before dawn. They said they were then brought to a port on the Gran Canaria. Some 25,000 migrants, mostly from west Africa, have arrived in the Canary Islands this year. Up to 3,000 people are said to have died during the trip.