African migrants trying to reach Spain in a small, crowded boat hurled Molotov cocktails at a patrol vessel that tried to stop them — the first known attack in the drama of Africans risking their lives for a toehold in Europe. The wooden boat was carrying 57 people, including two children, when a Spanish patrol boat intercepted it April 4 off the coast of Mauritania, police in the islands said Tuesday. Spanish vessels are stationed in Mauritania as part of a European drive to keep Africans from setting out on dangerous journeys to the Canary Islands. Full Story
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