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