Bodies found in Spain's North Africa waters brings migrant drownings to 14

An immigrant holds a placard during a protest for the death of at least 9 immigrants in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta a week ago while they were trying to enter Spain, in Madrid February 12, 2014. Photo: Reuters

Madrid, Spain: Spain's Civil Guard said on Saturday it had found the bodies of two African migrants in the sea off the country's Ceuta enclave, likely raising to 14 the number of people who drowned trying to swim to the territory from neighboring Morocco last week.

The migrants who drowned on February 6 were part of a group of around 200 who tried to cross the border. Some attempted to climb the fortified frontier fence while others jumped into the sea to swim around a man-made breakwater separating Moroccan and Spanish waters.