Spanish police this week intercepted a boat carrying 21 undocumented African immigrants including a dead baby, three live small children, a 12-year-old girl and four pregnant women, according to figures given by officials to Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

Police arrested a total of 16 adult immigrants - eight women and eight men - as well as the Moroccan captain of the boat spotted near Tarifa after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.  Police allowed the boat to land for fear that it might capsize if intercepted at sea.

Health workers said the baby died from hypothermia. A three-year- old girl was hospitalized for the same condition. Two of the pregnant women were also taken to hospital, one of them in labor.

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The Bangladeshi navy has busted a human trafficking ring, rescuing at least 90 young men who were huddled on a fishing trawler bound for Europe, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur.  The undocumented immigrants, who were arrested by port police along with three trawler operators, said they were lured by promises of lucrative jobs in Europe. They were initially heading to Greece after which they were to be smuggled into wealthier European countries.

Police suspect that the Bangladeshi traffickers were acting as the local agents of an unnamed Europe-based international human smuggling network.