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Nearly 2,100 migrants died trying to reach Spain in 2021: NGO |
2021-07-08 |
[AlAhram] Spanish interior ministry figures show that between January 1 and June 30, a total of 12,622 Nearly 2,100 That is five times more deaths than were registered during the same period of last year and the highest number for a first half of the year since non-governmental organization Caminando Fronteras, which monitors migratory flows, started keeping records in 2007. "It's been a horrendous year," Helena Maleno, an activist with the Spanish NGO, told a news conference called to present the group´s latest report. A total of 2,087 Over 90 percent of the deaths this year, or 1,922, took place during 57 shipwrecks on the route to the Canary Islands. Such tragedies are recurring with migrant arrivals on the Atlantic archipelago surging since late 2019 after increased patrols along Europe's southern coast dramatically reduced crossings to the continent via the Mediterranean. The shortest route to the islands is more than 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the Moroccan coast, but it is notoriously dangerous because of the strong currents in the Atlantic. Maleno blamed the rise in deaths this year on a greater use of inflatable boats on this route, which are less safe, because The cooperation between the two nations has worsened since a crisis in May that resulted in the entry of over 10,000 people from Morocco into Ceuta, a tiny Spanish enclave, she added. "There is no coordination. Information is not flowing between the two states," Maleno said. In many cases, even after the NGO sounds the alarm about a struggling boat, no one comes to the rescue, she added. " The higher corpse count is also due to the fact that more family members of Spanish interior ministry figures show that between January 1 and June 30, a total of 12,622 |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#4 Nearly 2,100 FIFY |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-08 13:09 |
#3 hey Raj, guess I'm not the only asshole. :) |
Posted by: Chris 2021-07-08 00:18 |
#2 I'm just going to be the asshole who says it, hope it's more. |
Posted by: Chris 2021-07-08 00:17 |
#1 If at first you don't succeed, die, die again... |
Posted by: Raj 2021-07-08 00:17 |