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| Canary Islands: 2 dead and 38 survivors on a migrant boat |
| 2024-03-13 |
| [AFRICANEWS] Spanish maritime rescuers said they had pulled out 38 people alive and recovered the remains of two others from a migrant boat that had left West Africa and was trying to reach the Canary Islands. The boat was spotted by a merchant ship 140 km south of Gran Canaria on Monday evening. Four people at death's door were evacuated to a hospital aboard two helicopters, while 34 others were transported by boat to the port of ArguineguÃn, Spain's maritime rescue service said. Among the survivors are seven women. Spanish authorities are facing an influx of Nearly 12,000 people fleeing poverty, conflict and instability in West Africa arrived in the Canaries in the first two months of the year, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry, more than six times the number recorded during the same period last year. Most Last week, two canoes that had left Mauritania for Spain were found adrift hundreds of kilometers away, near the Cape Verde archipelago, after failing to reach their destination, according to the police. Eleven survivors were rescued from one boat and five more from the second boat, but one person later died. Five bodies were also found and dozens more were believed to have been lost at sea. Related: Canary Islands: 2024-02-20 Moroccan Navy Rescues 141 Migrants off Atlantic Coast Canary Islands: 2023-12-01 Four migrants pushed out of a boat die just yards from Spain's southern coast Canary Islands: 2023-10-01 186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in southern Europe so far this year, most in Italy, UN says Related: Mauritania: 2024-02-20 Moroccan Navy Rescues 141 Migrants off Atlantic Coast Mauritania: 2024-02-10 With Mauritania, EU seeks to close the Atlantic to migrants and refugees Mauritania: 2024-02-10 261 Americans deported from Mexico through Baja California in 2023 Related: West Africa: 2024-03-11 Nigeria: Parents of abducted school children wait anxiously for news West Africa: 2024-03-08 Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger create joint forces to fight terrorism West Africa: 2024-03-04 Brutal Attacks in Northern Burkina Faso Claim 170 Lives, Including Women and Children |
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