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Boat sinks off Morocco near Spanish enclave

MADRID -- Spanish and Moroccan rescuers are searching for African migrants who had been aboard a boat that capsized off Morocco's northern coast, the Spanish government said Saturday.

A police patrol boat rescued 11 survivors after a Civil Guard helicopter spotted the sinking boat, the government said in a statement. Rescue services alerted the Royal Moroccan Navy, the statement said. The bodies of seven women and one man were pulled from the water after rescue services from three Spanish ports had been scrambled, the statement said.

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