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 …
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 …