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FOUR PEOPLE WERE found dead yesterday in a makeshift boat carrying 23 migrants near Spain’s Canary Islands off the west coast of Africa, local authorities said.
Nineteen migrants have been hospitalised on the island of Tenerife.
Three were in critical condition as of yesterday evening, the archipelago’s emergency service said on Twitter.
A helicopter rescue operation was carried out in the afternoon south of El Hierro island.
The operation focused on the raft which had been spotted by a fishing boat, according to the Spanish coast guard.
At least 20 people have died along the highly dangerous migratory route to Europe since the beginning of the year.
The rate of crossings has jumped in recent years, with 3,400 people arriving in the Canaries between 1 January and 31 March this year.
In comparison, the number of people arriving was less than half that figure over the same period in 2020.
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Rip that’s very sad.
They are more than ever going to Canary Islands because their countries have shutdown the borders. Therefore they can’t deported as usual.
The invasion is a planned strategy to gain entry in the EU. There are many sob stories circulating when the sob story is about an EU citizen victim of a salvage attack by these people … it’s silence and even labelled as racism.
Here is the current situation in the Canary Islands, all of them. People from Senegal and Morocco have realised they were misled, conned. Most of them are awaiting patiently their homeland countries open the borders and allow them return home. These people are in Direct Provision centres under Spain and a small number under EU . Some are in fostering type direct provision (people with spare rooms taking them to their home)
Morocco and Senegal seem to not provide any housing assistance to their citizens until their borders are opened again.
There is a number of them very conflictive and aggressive who have been expelled from direct provision for the safety of the residents and the personal running them, most of them volunteers. Some of them have criminal records, here and their home countries, and have committed a crime already.
What’s surprised is in Ireland no body knows about an horrendous attack against a young Irish woman by a gang of them with criminal records for exactly the same crime. She lives in the Canaries as many other Irish people with businesses and jobs over there.
@Maria Quinn: very informative it concurs with news I’ve heard from the islands by locals
@Maria Quinn: absolutely right what’s going on over there at the moment is shocking. The locals are more than fed up too.
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