Three migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are dead after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean but the Spanish navy managed to rescue another 30 people in the group.
The navy went to rescue the migrants after their dinghy sank on Tuesday near the island of Alboran, halfway between Spain's southern coast and its North African enclave of Melilla.
A 10-year-old girl and an older woman died on Tuesday and police divers found the body of a man near the scene of the sinking on Wednesday morning.
Another woman was flown to hospital in the southern coastal town of Almeria, where the survivors arrived late on Tuesday.
The coast guard saved another nine migrants, all sub-Saharan African men apparently in good health, from a small boat about 17km from the town of Tarifa on Spain's southernmost tip on Wednesday.
One thousand migrants arrived in Spain from North Africa between January 1 and April 9, and 47 died in the attempt during that time, the International Organisation for Migration says.
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