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The Latest: Spain probes if boy’s body from migrant drowning

Wrapped in blankets, Sub-Saharan migrants look at the coast inside the Golfo Azzurro rescue vessel as they are arriving at the port of Messina, in Italy, with more than 299 migrants aboard the ship rescued by members of Proactive Open Arms NGO, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Wrapped in blankets, Sub-Saharan migrants look at the coast inside the Golfo Azzurro rescue vessel as they are arriving at the port of Messina, in Italy, with more than 299 migrants aboard the ship rescued by members of Proactive Open Arms NGO, on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

By Associated Press 2 min read

ROME (AP) – The Latest on Europe’s migrant influx (all times local):

1:30 p.m.

Authorities in southern Spain are investigating whether a boy’s body that washed up on a beach last week is linked to a group of sub-Saharan migrants that drowned in mid-January as they tried to cross the Strait of Gibraltar.

The corpse of a boy that appeared to be around 6 years old was found by a local villager on Friday on a beach in Cadiz, said Agustin Munoz, a representative of the central government in the southern Spanish province.

The state of the body’s decomposition led police to link it to a group of six migrants who appeared dead on beaches on Jan. 14 and 15 after their boat capsized. Munoz said officials were trying to reach relatives in various African countries to confirm whether a minor was traveling on the boat.