the corpse of a Sub Saharan 4 year old child has been found on a beach at Algarrobo in Spain. It is belived that the boys body has come from the immigrant patera boats which have been intercepted in recent days in the Almería area.

the badly decomposed body of a suspected african migrant was recovered from the sea off Malta by the Armed Forces of Malta.

at least three migrants died and around 25 were missing after their boat capsized near the island of Lampedusa. The Italian coastguard responded to an SOS call of the boat which was in distress in stormy seas. According to reports, the migrants became agitated at the sight of the coastguard ship and their reactions caused their boat to overturn. Three bodies and 48 survivors have so far been pulled from the sea.

four African migrants died trying to reach Spains Canary Islands in a boat that was carrying 59 people. Police spotted the boat carrying the four bodies and 55 survivors of the trip when it was about one kilometer from a beach on the island of La Gomera. One more person died on arrival at hospital on the island and four seriously ill men were transferred by helicopter to hospitals on the island of Tenerife where another one died.

Three migrants - including a pregnant woman - drowned after their boat capsized some 60 nautical miles southwest of Malta. The other 25 passengers were rescued by an Armed Forces of Malta patrol boat. In a separate incident, 85 boat people were rescued by an Italian navy ship Fenice and taken to Malta.

Fifteen African migrants, most of them small children, died of hunger, thirst or exposure as they drifted across the Mediterranean on a small, overcrowded boat bound for Spain. A Spanish patrol boat rescued 33 people and recovered one body from the boat off the coast of Almeria province. Survivors told police they had been adrift for four or five days after the boat's motor broke down and that as people died - 14 in all, including nine children aged one to four - their bodies were thrown overboard.

14 migrants from Africa are missing and feared dead after their boat capsized overnight in rough seas about 60 nautical miles off the coastal Spanish city of Motril. Rescue crews pulled 23 Nigerians from the water. Survivors told officials 37 people had been on board and while rescue were searching the area by plane, boat and helicopter there was little chance of finding survivors in the rough waters.

a man, believed to be among a group of migrants from Iraq and Afghanistan, was found dead on a Greek ferry in Venice. Some of the immigrants had tied themselves with cables underneath lorries in order to get into italy without being detected. they were in a state of near exhaustion when they were found in the loading area of the Greek vessel. the dead migrant is believed to have suffocated during the journey.

at least 37 african migrants were found dead on the seafront off Gabon's capital Libreville after their boat was wrecked. a rickety open wooden boat, of the kind often used by would-be migrants trying to reach Europe from Africa, was found broken on rocks not far from the bodies.

The body of another Iraqi migrant was found in a truck carrying cucumbers that arrived to the port of Venice on a ferry from Greece.

three migrants coming from Africa and heading towards Malta drowned in a shipwreck 32 miles south off Malta.