Three migrants died

Three migrants among dozens trying to reach Spain from Northwest Africa in a wooden boat died and two others were in serious condition, officials said Saturday.
A Spanish patrol ship spotted the boat, which was carrying 88 people, in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of the Canary Island of Tenerife early Saturday, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said. The survivors were rescued, she said.
Four of the migrants, whose precise point of origin was unknown, were rushed to a hospital, the spokeswoman said.
Of 70 survivors in good health, nine were thought to be minors among them was a baby girl believed to be around 2 years old the spokeswoman said.