2023-10-23 00:20:56
Rescue services in the Spanish archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean, announced the arrival of about 1,500 migrants to the Spanish Canary Islands during Saturday and Sunday morning, after making the dangerous journey from Africa, including 321 people, on board a boat that rescuers said was the largest boat they had seen. Overcrowded ever.
Published on: 10/23/2023 – 02:20
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About 1,500 arrived African immigrant To the coast of the Canary Islands since Saturday, according to what rescue services in the Spanish archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean announced.
In total, 1,427 migrants arrived on the islands on rickety boats on Friday night – Saturday and Sunday morning, in the context of a rise in the number of arrivals in recent weeks, according to what emergency services announced on the “X” platform.
An emergency services spokesman explained to Agence France-Presse that the arriving migrants come from sub-Saharan African countries.
A wooden boat arrived on Saturday at El Hierro Island, carrying 321 migrants, a record number, according to an emergency services spokeswoman.
The previous record number of migrants arriving on one boat was 280, who arrived on October 3.
According to the latest figures issued by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, the archipelago received 23,537 migrants from the beginning of the year until October 15, an increase of nearly 80% compared to the same period last year.
During the first two weeks of October, 8,561 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands, a record number since the previous migration crisis in 2006, according to Spanish media.
During a visit to the Canary Islands this week, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska considered that the “increasing” influx of migrants was linked to “destabilization in the Sahel region.”
Migration operations towards the Canary Islands have increased in recent years, due to tightening controls in the Mediterranean.
France 24/AFP
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