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Eight migrants found dead in boat near Spain's Canary Islands
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MADRID, 15 November 2021, (TON): The Canary Islands government said “Spanish coastguards found the bodies of eight African migrants in a boat which was drifting in the sea off Spain's Gran Canaria island.”
Sixty-two migrants, all of them men except a 12-year-old boy, were rescued by coastguards.
Three people who were critically ill were flown by helicopter to a hospital in Gran Canaria. Nine others were treated by the Spanish coastguard as they were taken to the island.
The Canary Islands emergency services said “the boat carrying the migrants had been drifting in the Atlantic about 40 miles to the south of Gran Canaria for about a week.”
Coastguards also intercepted another migrant boat on Sunday carrying 35 men and one woman, a few miles off the Spanish island.
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