MADRID, June 4 (Reuters) - Scores of would-be illegal immigrants trying to get to Spain were missing in the Straits of Gibraltar on Thursday after the boat they were travelling in overturned, a spokeswoman for Spain's emergency services said. Coastguards found 11 men and 11 women, one of them pregnant, on the hull of the upturned boat 10 miles south of Tarifa -- Spain's most southerly tip -- and 4 miles north of the Moroccan port of Tangier, a spokeswoman for the local government said. Estimates of how many were missing varied between 18 and 60. "The area is being searched by helicopter. At the moment we haven't found any floating corpses," said a local government spokeswoman adding that the search was a joint operation with Morocco since it happened in their territorial waters. A spokesman for the coastguard said police were interviewing the survivors to determine the exact number. "Some say its 40, others say 18, it changes a lot and is not reliable," he said. However, Daniel Iglesias, from the Red Cross in Tarifa, told Spanish radio station Cadena Ser that some survivors had spoken of up to 60 passengers missing. (Reporting by Emma Pinedo; writing by Ben Harding; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
Internally displaced girls, fleeing military operations in the Swat valley region, play in a dust storm at the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) Yar Hussain camp in Swabi district, ...
