1 Die, 15 Injured In Ondo Boat Mishap

Fresh reports hitting the desk of Africa Today News, New York has revealed that some six migrants have been found dead at sea and others were missing after their boat had sunk Monday off the coast of Algeria, six survivors were rescued.

“Six bodies were retrieved and six injured people, including a pregnant woman, have been transferred to hospital at Bainem” west of the capital Algiers, private television channel Ennahar said.

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The boat capsized around 4:00 am local time (0300 GMT), it added.

A search was ongoing for an unspecified number of missing people. The boat’s occupants originated from various sub-Saharan African countries. They were attempting to reach Europe.

More than 2,350 would-be migrants have been rescued or intercepted in the first seven months of this year off Algeria, according to data provided by national authorities.

Spain is a favoured destination for migrants embarking from the North African nation.

Algeria has suspended a two-decades-old friendship treaty with Spain with immediate effect after Madrid reversed decades of neutrality in the Western Sahara dispute.

The move has now become the latest blow to increasingly fragile relations between Algiers and Madrid, which depends on Algeria for its natural gas supply.

‘Algeria has decided to immediately suspend the treaty of friendship, good neighbourliness and cooperation’ signed with Madrid in 2002, the president’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.

Spain’s government said it regretted Algeria’s decision and reaffirmed its commitment to the friendship treaty.

‘The Spanish government regards Algeria as a friendly neighbour country and restates its complete readiness to keep and develop the special cooperation relationship between our two countries, to the benefit of the people of both,’ a Spanish foreign ministry statement said.

Africa Today News, New York

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