Rescuers from the Spanish Coast Guard tow a boat with the bodies of migrants who were found dead, in the Port of Los Cristianos in the south of the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain April 28, 2021. — Reuters picTENERIFE , April 29 — A boat found drifting off the coast of Spain’s Canary Islands with 24 dead migrants on board arrived yesterday on one of the archipelago’s islands, officials said.
A Spanish air force plane on a routine patrol first spotted the boat on Monday morning some 500 kilometres southeast of the island of El Hierro. Last year 23,023 migrants reached the Canaries, a figure eight times higher than in 2019, according to the interior ministry.
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