The authorities now believe that nine out of the fifteen illegal immigrants who died on their way to Spain were babies.
The boat in which the would-be immigrants were travelling started out from North Africa with 48 people on board, but only 33 made it to Spain.
The boat was intercepted off the Almería coast and the survivors were taken to Almería port where several of the passengers required hoaspitalisation.
The cause of the fifteen deaths was, in the main, starvation. The boat was poorly equipped and provisioned, and the passengers spent several days without food or water. The babies, nine of them, were particularly vulnerable in such a situation and were unable to survive.