Maritime Rescue vessels are searching for a boat reportedly carrying up to 50 sub-Saharan migrants. The boat left Morocco on Monday and is thought to be somewhere in the Alboran Sea.
A Mali national in Morocco called the authorities to say that his wife was on board a vessel along with at least 46 other people, three of them children. The caller said that there was a mobile phone on the vessel.
The search began on Monday evening but had to be suspended overnight.