US EditionAt Least 50 Dead as Migrants 'Beaten, Shot and Hurled Overboard' in Execution
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Survivors, coming from Senegal and rescued off Gran Canaria, reported that people were thrown overboard, accused of "sorcery" and responsible for engine failures or food shortages.
'Massacre' on the high seas: 19 people arrested on suspicion of throwing 50 migrants overboard on journey from Senegal to Spain's Canary Islands
Police, who believe that those detained were the organisers of the perilous journey in the wooden boat that appeared adrift off Gran Canaria on 24 August, have charged them with homicide and a number of other offences
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The suspects are accused of murder and torture on board a ship of migrants from Senegal to the Canary Islands, where at least 50 people were reported missing on arrival in August.
Spanish police arrested 19 people accused of homicides and torture on a migrant boat connecting Senegal to the Canary Islands On Wednesday, the Spanish police announced that they had arrested 19 people.
Wooden ship with 248 people on board was salvaged south of Gran Canaria, and 50 migrants were reported missing.
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