This year more than a thousand people - mostly young men - have died trying to a reach Europe and a new life.
The real number who die trying to cross the Atlantic in open boats from the West Coast of Africa to the Canaries is far higher - they just never find the bodies.
Spanish patrols have effectively stopped the shortest people smuggling routes from Africa into Spain and the Canaries. Now the smugglers set off on a more dangerous voyage five hundred miles further south from Mauritania.
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