MADRID: Spain’s coast guard rescued 107 migrants from boats off the Canary Islands over the weekend as the migrant surge showed no letup on the Atlantic archipelago, a spokesman said on Sunday.
A total of 56 migrants were plucked from two vessels on Saturday.
One boat was found off the island of Tenerife carrying 15 men, while a second was intercepted off Gran Canaria carrying another 41 men, all of them from sub-Saharan Africa.
On Sunday, the coast guard rescued another 51 people on a boat found off Gran Canaria, he said.
On board were 49 men and two women.
Published in Dawn, March 8th, 2021
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