Search resumes for 48 missing migrants off Spanish Canaries 

Puerto de la Estaca, Spain — 

Rescue teams connected Sunday resumed searching for astatine slightest 48 migrants who went messing the time earlier erstwhile their vessel overturned conscionable arsenic it was being rescued disconnected Spain's Canary Islands, sidesplitting astatine slightest 9 people.

Hopes of uncovering survivors were slim arsenic oversea rescue teams searched the waters disconnected El Hierro, an land successful the Atlantic archipelago.

It is the latest successful a bid of specified disasters disconnected the seashore of Africa.

"The hunt cognition is resuming," Spain's maritime rescue organisation told AFP.

The 48 are "presumed dead", Canaries determination president Fernando Clavijo told journalists connected Saturday night.

More bodies volition apt look "over the adjacent two, 3 days", washed up by the current, helium added.

Twenty-seven migrants were rescued and 9 bodies recovered aft the boat, which had acceptable retired from Nouadhibou successful Mauritania, immoderate 800 kilometers (nearly 500 miles) away, overturned disconnected El Hierro.

The calamity deed erstwhile rescuers arrived to assistance the migrants aft they themselves called exigency services, Spanish officials said.

Migrants rushed to 1 broadside of the precarious boat, causing it to tip.

The migrants "had gone 2 days without nutrient oregon water", which whitethorn person fuelled their panic, Anselmo Pestana, caput of the Canary Islands prefecture, told journalists successful the larboard of La Estaca.

Spanish authorities sources said the vessel whitethorn person been carrying up to 90 people, alternatively of 84 arsenic primitively announced, which could enactment the fig of missing astatine much than 50.

This catastrophe follows the decease of 39 migrants successful aboriginal September erstwhile their vessel sank disconnected Senegal portion attempting a akin crossing to the Canaries, from wherever migrants anticipation to scope mainland Europe.

Thousands of migrants person died successful caller years mounting disconnected from westbound Africa to scope Europe via the Atlantic aboard overcrowded and often dilapidated boats.