Girl dies during rescue of migrant boat off Canary Islands
3 years, 5 months ago

Girl dies during rescue of migrant boat off Canary Islands

Associated Press  

MADRID — A young girl died during a rescue operation to save migrants trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands in a small boat, Spanish authorities said Wednesday. Emergency services for the Canary Islands said the girl suffered respiratory failure before the rescue helicopter carrying her and two adults could reach a hospital. The perilous sea route from western Africa to the Canary Islands has become an important entry point for migrants fleeing poverty and violence in hopes of reaching Europe. At least 178 migrants have died so far this year trying to reach the Spanish archipelago, according to the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration.

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5 migrants die, 40 go missing as boat capsizes off Greece coast
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1 week, 3 days ago

5 migrants die, 40 go missing as boat capsizes off Greece coast

Firstpost  

A huge rescue operation involving vessels and aircraft was under way in the sea south of the island of Gavdos, south of Crete, after the boat capsized shortly after midnight, the coastguard said Five migrants died early Saturday when a migrant boat sank off Crete, Greece’s coastguard said, leaving 40 people reportedly missing while 39 survivors were rescued. The boat …

Eleven-year-old from Sierra Leone survives three days at sea
1 week, 6 days ago

Eleven-year-old from Sierra Leone survives three days at sea

Hindustan Times  

By Alvise Armellini Eleven-year-old from Sierra Leone survives three days at sea ROME, - An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy's Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said on Wednesday. Germany's CompassCollective said crew on its vessel were en route to another emergency when they …

Hope fades after migrant boat sinks off Spanish island
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hope fades after migrant boat sinks off Spanish island

China Daily  

By Earle Gale in London | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-10-01 18:43 Flowers are seen during burial of a migrant in the El Mocanal cemetery, after the sinking of a migrant boat that killed at least nine people and left at least 48 missing, on the island of El Hierro, Spain on Sept 30. The Canary Island's regional president, …

At least 4 migrants have died and others remain missing after a boat capsized off Senegal
3 months, 2 weeks ago

At least 4 migrants have died and others remain missing after a boat capsized off Senegal

Associated Press  

DAKAR, Senegal — A boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Senegal over the weekend, leaving at least four people dead and several others missing, local authorities said on Monday. In recent years, the number of migrants leaving West Africa through Senegal has surged with many fleeing conflict, poverty and the lack of job opportunities. Last month, the Senegalese …

More than a dozen migrants dead, 150 missing after their boat capsizes on way to Europe
4 months, 4 weeks ago

More than a dozen migrants dead, 150 missing after their boat capsizes on way to Europe

LA Times  

More than a dozen migrants died and at least 150 others are missing after their boat capsized off Mauritania on their way to Europe, the International Organization for Migration said, triggering a frantic search-and-rescue operation. There were 300 migrants on the boat that capsized on Monday near the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, and 120 have been rescued by the Mauritanian Coast …

Thousands of migrant kids have reached the Canary Islands alone. Local officials want Spain’s help
5 months ago

Thousands of migrant kids have reached the Canary Islands alone. Local officials want Spain’s help

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — The children sometimes won’t stop crying. Health workers dealing with migrants arriving on Spain’s Canary Islands try to understand if the tears are from illness, injury or, as is often the case, from pure shock. “There’s no medicine for that,” said Inmaculada Mora Peces, a 54-year-old emergency doctor who treats migrants arriving on the island of El …

Brazilian authorities bury deceased migrants who drifted in African boat to the Amazon
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Brazilian authorities bury deceased migrants who drifted in African boat to the Amazon

The Independent  

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2 dead and 38 rescued from a migrant boat near Spain's Canary Islands
9 months, 1 week ago

2 dead and 38 rescued from a migrant boat near Spain's Canary Islands

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4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain's Canary Islands
9 months, 2 weeks ago

4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain's Canary Islands

The Independent  

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4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain’s Canary Islands
9 months, 2 weeks ago

4 migrants are found dead and 64 are rescued as a Mauritanian boat reaches Spain’s Canary Islands

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — Four migrants were found dead and 64 were rescued when a boat from Mauritania reached Spain’s Canary Islands after a dangerous Atlantic journey from West Africa, Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said. The migrants arrived on the island of El Hierro late on Tuesday evening, with the survivors including two women and nine minors, the service said. Nearly …

Five Migrants Killed in Boat Capsize off Greece
1 year, 3 months ago

Five Migrants Killed in Boat Capsize off Greece

News 18  

Five people including an 11-month girl died Monday and 54 people were rescued when two migrant boats sank off Greece, officials said. Four migrants died, including an eight-year-old boy and three girls, aged 11 months, eight years and 14 years, Marinakis said. Public broadcaster ERT said 1,100 people had arrived in Greece in August against 789 in July and 608 …

Scores of Senegalese migrants dead or missing after monthlong voyage for Spain
1 year, 4 months ago

Scores of Senegalese migrants dead or missing after monthlong voyage for Spain

LA Times  

More than 60 migrants are feared dead after a Spanish fishing vessel off the Atlantic island of Cape Verde rescued a boat that started its journey a month ago with more than 100 aboard, authorities and migrant advocates said Thursday. The Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders said the vessel was a large fishing boat, called a pirogue, which had …

Dozens of Senegalese migrants are dead or missing after their boat is rescued with 38 survivors
1 year, 4 months ago

Dozens of Senegalese migrants are dead or missing after their boat is rescued with 38 survivors

The Independent  

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Dozens of Senegalese migrants are dead or missing after their boat is rescued with 38 survivors
1 year, 4 months ago

Dozens of Senegalese migrants are dead or missing after their boat is rescued with 38 survivors

Associated Press  

DAKAR, Senegal — Dozens of migrants headed for Spain are believed missing and feared dead after coast guards off the Atlantic Island of Cabo Verde rescued 38 people on a boat that had left Senegal in West Africa over one month ago with more than 100 aboard, authorities and migrant advocates said. Senegal’s foreign affairs ministry said the boat was …

300 migrants bound to Spain's Canary Islands go missing at Atlantic Ocean
1 year, 5 months ago

300 migrants bound to Spain's Canary Islands go missing at Atlantic Ocean

India TV News  

Three boats carrying over 300 irregular migrants suddenly went missing in the Atlantic Ocean, said migrant aid group Walking Borders on Sunday, prompting a frantic search by authorities. Walking Borders spokesperson Helena Maleno informed that the boats had embarked from Senegal 15 days ago towards the Canary Islands in Spain, reported Anadolu Agency. Last year, as many as 559 irregular …

At least 300 migrants missing at sea near Spain's Canary Islands, says aid group
1 year, 5 months ago

At least 300 migrants missing at sea near Spain's Canary Islands, says aid group

India Today  

At least 300 people who were traveling on three migrant boats from Senegal to Spain's Canary Islands have disappeared, migrant aid group Walking Borders said on Sunday. Two boats, one carrying about 65 people and the other with between 50 and 60 on board, have been missing for 15 days since they left Senegal to try to reach Spain, Helena …

More than 950 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by sea in first 6 months of 2023, group says
1 year, 5 months ago

More than 950 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by sea in first 6 months of 2023, group says

Associated Press  

MADRID — At least 951 migrants have died while trying to reach Spain by sea in the first six months of 2023, a Spanish migrant rights group said Thursday. It said in a report issued Thursday that official Spanish figures show fewer boats arrived in the first six months, but that 13 more people died than in the first six …

Two found dead off Moroccan coast after rubber dinghy carrying dozens of migrants sinks
1 year, 6 months ago

Two found dead off Moroccan coast after rubber dinghy carrying dozens of migrants sinks

Associated Press  

MADRID — The bodies of a man and a child were retrieved from waters off the western coast of Morocco and 24 people were rescued after a rubber dinghy carrying migrants sank, Spain’s Maritime Rescue service said Wednesday. A Spanish Maritime Rescue spokesperson, who was not authorized to be named in the media, told The Associated Press that the service …

Five dead after migrant boat sinks off Greek island of Leros
1 year, 10 months ago

Five dead after migrant boat sinks off Greek island of Leros

ABC  

Four children and a woman died when a boat carrying at least 41 migrants crashed on a rocky coast on the Greek island of Leros, authorities say. Key points: Greece's Coast Guard was alerted to the accident when the woman's body was spotted floating at sea The four children died after being taken to hospital Gale-force winds were blowing in …

Nigerian stowaways found on ship's rudder in Canary Islands
2 years ago

Nigerian stowaways found on ship's rudder in Canary Islands

Firstpost  

The men found on the Alithini II oil tanker at the Las Palmas port on Monday afternoon appeared to have symptoms of dehydration and hypothermia and were transferred to hospitals on the island for medical attention Barcelona: Three stowaways were found on a ship’s rudder in the Canary Islands after an 11-day ocean voyage from Nigeria, Spain’s maritime rescue service …

Infants among 6 Syrian refugees found dead on boat off Italy
2 years, 3 months ago

Infants among 6 Syrian refugees found dead on boat off Italy

Al Jazeera  

The refugees, including two infants and a child, ‘died of thirst, hunger and severe burns’, the UNHCR has said. Six Syrian refugees, including two infants and a child, have been found dead on a migrant boat that arrived in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the United Nations refugee agency has said. Six more migrant bodies found off Tunisia Meanwhile, six …

Braving the Atlantic: The refugees risking death to reach Europe
2 years, 6 months ago

Braving the Atlantic: The refugees risking death to reach Europe

Al Jazeera  

Their crossing is undertaken in poorly equipped fishing boats or even rubber dinghies. The tightening of border controls through the western and central Mediterranean routes has contributed to a dramatic increase in the number of people braving this longer sea passage. This has made these islands 1,600km off the mainland, a beacon for people coming primarily from Morocco, Western Sahara, …

Spain rescues 319 migrants at sea, 18 more feared drowned
2 years, 10 months ago

Spain rescues 319 migrants at sea, 18 more feared drowned

Associated Press  

MADRID — Emergency services on Spain’s Canary Islands say 319 people, including 59 women and 24 children, were rescued from seven different boats trying to reach the archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, while activists say at least 18 migrants have died. Spanish rescue vessels reached the boats in different locations late Tuesday and early Wednesday, a Maritime Rescue Service spokeswoman …

Canary Islands: More than 400 migrants rescued in Atlantic
3 years, 1 month ago

Canary Islands: More than 400 migrants rescued in Atlantic

The Independent  

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7 minors among 29 dead on migrant boat to Canary Islands
3 years, 3 months ago

7 minors among 29 dead on migrant boat to Canary Islands

Associated Press  

MADRID — At least 29 Africans, including seven children, died last week while trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands on a smuggling boat, according to information released Monday from a U.N. migration agency and a Spanish migrant charity in touch with victims’ relatives. But at least 24 more people were on the boat when it left Aug. 15 from Dakhla, …

7 girls among 29 dead on migrant boat to Canary Islands
3 years, 3 months ago

7 girls among 29 dead on migrant boat to Canary Islands

The Independent  

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52 feared dead, 1 survivor, on migrant boat going to Spain
3 years, 4 months ago

52 feared dead, 1 survivor, on migrant boat going to Spain

Associated Press  

LISBON, Portugal — A woman who was the only person pulled from a sinking dinghy in the Atlantic Ocean told her rescuers that the boat had left Africa a week earlier carrying 53 migrants, Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said Friday. A merchant ship spotted the inflatable dinghy on Thursday, 255 kilometers south of Spain’s Canary Islands, and alerted Spanish emergency …

About 40 migrants feared dead after boat capsizes off Western Sahara: Report
3 years, 4 months ago

About 40 migrants feared dead after boat capsizes off Western Sahara: Report

India Today  

About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish non-governmental organisation, said on Friday. "Tragedy: forty-two people, among those thirty women, eight children and four men, died when a boat capsized off the coast of Dakhla," tweeted Helena Maleno of Caminando Fronteras, which monitors migratory …

Spanish police arrest 2 for migrant tragedy in Atlantic
3 years, 5 months ago

Spanish police arrest 2 for migrant tragedy in Atlantic

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — Spanish police said Wednesday that they have arrested two people for their alleged responsibility in the deaths of more than 20 migrants who perished last month while trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the Canary Islands. Difficulties in tracking the small crafts produce differing statistics, but they all indicate that the perilous sea route from Western …

Migrant boat capsizes near Spain’s Canary Islands, 4 dead
3 years, 6 months ago

Migrant boat capsizes near Spain’s Canary Islands, 4 dead

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — Four people died, one of them a child, when a migrant boat believed to be carrying 45 passengers capsized near Spain’s Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Friday. Emergency workers and residents rescued 41 people, including 19 women and seven children, with sub-Saharan nationalities, and they worked overnight until Friday afternoon recovering the bodies of three adults and …

Nabody, 2-year-old girl from Mali, dies after Spain sea rescue
3 years, 9 months ago

Nabody, 2-year-old girl from Mali, dies after Spain sea rescue

Al Jazeera  

Toddler passes away at hospital, days after being resuscitated by emergency workers following rescue from packed boat off Canary Islands. A two-year-old girl from Mali who had to be resuscitated after being rescued from a boat packed with people off Spain’s Canary Islands last week has died in hospital, according to local authorities. Nabody was one of 52 people from …

14 hospitalized in Canaries after migrants rescued at sea
3 years, 9 months ago

14 hospitalized in Canaries after migrants rescued at sea

Associated Press  

BARCELONA, Spain — Scores of migrants have been rescued from several boats near Spain’s Canary Islands, with 14 — many suffering from hypothermia — requiring hospitalization, authorities said Wednesday. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service rescued the 84 passengers of two boats Wednesday, and 52 from one more late Tuesday, near the island of Gran Canaria. On Wednesday, another three migrant boats …

Boy reported dead at sea in attempt to reach Canary Islands
3 years, 11 months ago

Boy reported dead at sea in attempt to reach Canary Islands

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Spanish rescuers reached a boat carrying over 30 migrants and brought them …

4 die as migrant boat reaches Spain’s Canary Islands
3 years, 11 months ago

4 die as migrant boat reaches Spain’s Canary Islands

Associated Press  

MADRID — Three men died in a boat carrying more than 40 migrants and another died upon reaching shore on Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tuesday, authorities said. They were the first deaths of migrants arriving on the islands in 2021, a spokeswoman for the emergency services said. The migrants, which included one woman and 17 minors, were from …

8 migrants die as boat overturns near Spanish island
4 years ago

8 migrants die as boat overturns near Spanish island

Associated Press  

MADRID — At least eight people died after a migrant boat carrying more than 30 people hit rocks close to a small port on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spanish rescue services said Wednesday. The Canary Islands emergency service said the Lanzarote boat crashed into pier rocks and overturned in the Orzola area on the north of the island late …

Spain in diplomatic push over migrant flow to Canary Islands
4 years, 1 month ago

Spain in diplomatic push over migrant flow to Canary Islands

Associated Press  

MADRID — The Spanish government is ratcheting up its response to the steady build-up of migrant arrivals to the Canary Islands from Africa, including a fresh diplomatic offensive. Though the government has come under pressure from local officials to transfer a significant number of migrants and asylum seekers to the Spanish mainland, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said Friday that the …

Migrant arrivals putting pressure on Spain’s Canary Islands
4 years, 1 month ago

Migrant arrivals putting pressure on Spain’s Canary Islands

Associated Press  

MADRID — Spanish rescue services have located 1,300 migrants in four days in the Atlantic Ocean and transferred them to the southern Canary Islands, further straining local emergency response capabilities as makeshift military camps for the newcomers were being readied. The Spanish government says it plans to increase aid for Africa while speeding up deportations of those who don’t meet …

Over 1,600 migrants reach Spain’s Canary Islands, 1 dies
4 years, 1 month ago

Over 1,600 migrants reach Spain’s Canary Islands, 1 dies

Associated Press  

MADRID — More than 1,600 migrants have either been rescued at sea or reached Spain’s Canary Islands in small boats over the weekend, emergency services for the archipelago said Sunday. The body of one person who had died during the perilous journey was recovered by rescuers in waters near the island of El Hierro, the Canary Islands emergency services said. …

Spain searches for migrant boat taking risky Atlantic route
4 years, 5 months ago

Spain searches for migrant boat taking risky Atlantic route

Associated Press  

MADRID — Spanish authorities searched Wednesday for a boat reportedly carrying around 60 migrants from western Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands, a perilous Atlantic Ocean route that is increasingly attracting migrants wanting to reach European soil. A plane with Spain’s maritime rescue service was looking for the inflatable boat amid poor sea conditions, state news agency Efe reported from the …

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