Six would-be Arab immigrants have drowned after their boat sank off southern Spain.
Civil Guard divers recovered the bodies of five of the drowned but had spotted at least one other body.
The single-engined rubber boat sank after hitting rocks during a crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar from Morocco.
Twenty-seven of the survivors were taken into custody after being rescued; eight others managed to escape on foot on arriving at Tarifa, Spain's southernmost tip. Police believe all 41 were from Morocco or Algeria.
A Civil Guard spokesman says 17 other would-be immigrants were found walking along a road near Tarifa after arriving in a similar boat. The group included 11 sub-Saharan Africans, five Asians and one from Maghreb.
Every year thousands of people try to enter Europe from Morocco through Spain. Those detained are normally repatriated once police ascertain their nationalities.
AP