SPAIN: Four migrants have died just yards from a beach in southern Spain after people-traffickers forced them out of their boat.

The Spanish government press office in the southern province of Cadiz said today that 31 other people, including six children, survived the incident on Wednesday and four were taken to hospital.

The press office said that 27 were forced out near Camposoto beach, which is where the four died, and another eight were pushed into the water close to another beach.