A SMALL child of sub-Saharan African origin has been found dead on a Cádiz province beach, once again highlighting the tragic desperation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean for a better life.
The tiny victim is said to be a boy aged around six, according authorities who made the distressing discovery on the shore in Barbate.
He was found near the Trafalgar lighthouse area by coastguard officials who have been searching for the occupants of a disappeared migrant boat to the west of the Strait of Gibraltar over the weekend of January 14 and 15.
Rescuers called off the search 12 days ago after finding the bodies of three sub-Saharan men on the beach in Algeciras (Cádiz), and of a North African man and a sub-Saharan woman in the Bolonia area of Tarifa on the shore.
They had initially believed only five people were travelling on the raft, thought to have set sail from the Cape Espartel near Tangiers, the northernmost city in Morocco.
