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Spain/ A boat with 200 migrants disappears in the Canary Islands

2023-07-10 10:37:44Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Spain/ A boat with 200 migrants disappears in the Canary Islands
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Spanish rescue teams are searching the waters off the Canary Islands for a boat carrying at least 200 African migrants who went missing more than a week ago. Aid group Walking Borders says the fishing boat sailed from Kafountine, a coastal town in southern Senegal that is approximately 1,700 km from Tenerife.

The group says many children are on board, Spanish news agency Efe reports. Two similar boats with dozens of other people are also said to be missing. Spain's maritime rescue service told 'Efe' that a plane had joined the search.

The boat with 200 people on board left Kafountine on June 27, bound for the Canary Islands. There are few details about the other two boats, but Reuters news agency quoted Helena Maleno as saying that one has about 65 people on board, the other up to 60. That would bring the total number of people missing to the three boats, in more than 300.

The news comes just weeks after Europe saw one of its worst migrant drownings in the Mediterranean, when an overcrowded boat capsized off the Greek coast.

At least 78 people were confirmed drowned, but the United Nations (UN) reported that up to 500 were still missing. The journey from West Africa to the Canary Islands is among the most dangerous routes for migrants, foreign media write.

Last year at least 559 people died at sea trying to reach the Spanish islands, says the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM). The number of dead for 2021 was 1,126 people.

IOM quotes Spain's Interior Ministry as saying that 15,682 people arrived illegally in the Canary Islands in 2022, a 30% drop compared to 2021. "Despite the year-on-year decrease, flows along this dangerous route since 2020 remain high compared to previous years," says the IOM.


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