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About 80 confirmed dead after migrant boat gets into difficulty off Gran Canaria

Spanish Maritime Rescue found 44 survivors and five bodies on a boat that had been adrift in the Atlantic Ocean for 27 days near the Canary Islands. The boat had left The Gambia, and the NGO Caminando Fronteras said around 80 to 83 people, including women and a baby, are believed to have died.

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Five killed, dozens more feared dead in boat adrift off Canary Islands

Al Jazeera reports the same core facts but adds broader migration policy context, including statistics on arrival numbers and trends, and frames the tragedy partly through the lens of Europe's migration gateway dynamics and a call for a 'state policy on migration'.

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More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands

BBC and Sky News report the rescue and feared/confirmed death toll factually, citing Spanish Maritime Rescue and the NGO Caminando Fronteras, with minimal interpretive framing beyond noting the Atlantic route's danger.

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