An Algerian teenager has been charged with 12 counts of reckless homicide after a boat full of migrants sank off the coast in Alicante Province. Only five people, including the boy, survived.
Each of the victims paid up to 2,500 euros for the journey which ended 22 miles off the Costa Blanca after engine failure and bad weather capsized the craft. The minor was part of a gang that organised the ill-fated venture and is currently in a juvenile prison facility.
