Spain saves 64 migrants from 2 boats crossing Mediterranean

MADRID - 24 September 2017: Spain's maritime rescue service says it has saved 64 migrants from two small boats trying to make a perilous sea crossing from Africa to Europe, Fox News reported Saturday.

The rescue service says one of its boats intercepted 28 migrants on Friday near Alboran Island, which lies in the western Mediterranean Sea east of the Strait of Gibraltar. The service has an outpost on the small island.

A second rescue boat pulled another 31 men and five boys from another small craft. The service identified the passengers as Moroccans.