In excess of 700 migrants going on four distinct boats were protected close to the shores of Spain’s Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Saturday.
Nearly 247 individuals were on board one boat, 238 on another, and 254 on different two, as indicated by a post on “X,” previously Twitter, by the Canary Islands’ true crisis administrations account on Saturday.
Of those on board, two individuals were dead when found and two others kicked the bucket in a clinic, while 12 others are being treated in clinics, authorities said.
On Thursday, Spain’s Inside Service said that 30,075 transients had shown up to the Canary Islands by water from January 1 to October 31, over two times the number who showed up over a similar period in 2022.
The Canaries archipelago lies off Morocco’s west coast.
