A Spanish charity says as many as 39 asylum seekers have drowned — including four women and a baby — after their boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands. It’s the latest in a deadly series of shipwrecks involving asylum seekers along the Atlantic route to Spain, where last year at least 45 shipwrecks and over 500 deaths were reported.

Meanwhile, police in Pakistan have arrested seven people accused of sharing responsibility for the deaths of as many as 700 migrants who drowned last week after their overcrowded fishing vessel sank off the coast of Greece.