More than 1,400 African immigrants arrived in Spain’s Canary Islands this weekend, with one ship carrying a record 321 passengers. writes about this Arab news.
A total of 1,457 migrants arrived on the Spanish islands off the coast of West Africa between Friday evening and Sunday morning.
The emergency service spokesman added that all arrivals came from sub-Saharan Africa.
So on Saturday, 321 people arrived on a ship to the island of El Hierro. This workload surpassed the previous record of 280 people on a single boat on October 3. Spanish broadcaster TVE broadcast footage of a colorful ship full of smiling and waving passengers near the harbour.
Latest figures from the Spanish Ministry of Internal Affairs show that 23,537 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands between 1 January and 15 October.
In the first two weeks of this month alone, 8,561 people arrived; this is a record since the beginning of the previous migration crisis in 2006.
The sharp increase in numbers was due to political destabilization in the Sahel, Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said during a visit to the archipelago.
It has been noted that the Canary route has been preferred among immigrants due to the tightening of controls in the Mediterranean in recent years.
However, many unseaworthy ships never reached shore. Thousands of migrants risk their lives on long and dangerous sea journeys.
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