Spain saves more than 200 migrants in the Mediterranean

Spanish rescue services said on Sunday they had rescued more than 200 migrants in the Mediterranean, while Spain's interior minister went to Mauritania to try to fight against illegal immigration.

Migrants wait to be rescued by aid workers of Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, about 15 miles north of Sabratha in Libya.

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