The body of a baby washed up on a Spanish beach near the Mediterranean city of Tarragona a week ago is that of a little girl who was traveling with her parents on the boat that sank, killing all 15 people on board. in it in April, as the police announced today.

The eight-month-old girl was traveling with her parents on an inflatable boat that left Algeria on March 21 and sank off Spain’s Balearic Islands on April 6.

After discovering the body on July 11, in Ronda de Berra, a seaside town on Spain’s Gold Coast, about 200 km northwest of Majorca, police analyzed a sample of genetic material that matched that of a woman whose body was recovered after the wreck .

Including the baby and its mother, the bodies of eight migrants who drowned in the wreck have so far been found.

Migrants who reach the eastern coast of Spain, sailing across the Mediterranean, usually depart from Algeria. According to the Spanish NGO Walking Borders, the route is the second deadliest in the Mediterranean for migrants in the last five years. In 2022 alone, an estimated 464 people lost their lives in 43 shipwrecks.