Group of 53 Moroccans arrested on illegal migration attempt

Spanish authorities arrested on Monday night in the Spanish southern town of Tarifa 53 Moroccans on board a small boat.

Local radio stations reported that the group of illegal immigrants were spotted some four miles away from a Tarifa beach.

In Rabat, the Royal marine announced that Moroccan coastguards arrested in the month of September in the Gibraltar strait and in the Mediterranean a total of 443 persons trying to enter illegally Spain.

The group included 378 Moroccans, 62 from Sub-Saharan African and three Algerians.