At least 52 people are feared dead after a boat capsized off the Atlantic

Desk report: More than 50 people are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean. The sinking took place in the Atlantic Ocean, about 220 kilometers from the Spanish Canary Islands. Khabar Al Jazeera. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said only a 30-year-old woman was rescued alive from the sinking boat on Thursday. The boat left Africa a week ago with 53 migrants and refugees.A merchant ship was seen sinking south of the Canary Islands. They later alerted the Spanish emergency services. A rescue official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the woman was holding the sinking boat. At that time there was a dead man and a dead woman by his side. The weather was not very good at the time of the sinking. The rescued woman said the boat left off the coast of western Sahara. The passengers on the boat are residents of Ivory Coast. The woman was airlifted to a hospital in Las Palmas after the rescue, AFP reported. The hospital is located on Gran Canaria Island. Immigrants and refugees die when boats sink in the Atlantic, separating the west coast of Africa and the Canary Islands of Spain. But it is very difficult to find these sunken boats. Again, the bodies of many victims were never found.