44 people have been rescued alive from a migrant boat near the Canary Islands in Spain, but 83 of the 127 passengers on the boat have died. It is feared.
Among the dead were four women and one child, according to the Spanish non-governmental organization ‘Caminanddo Fronterus’ (Walking Borders). This information is known in a report of the US news agency CNN.
The report said the boat had launched from the West African country of Gambia 27 days ago after a long time floating in the sea, according to the agency's head Helena Malenno, which was found floating about 65 nautical miles southwest of the city of Arguingenin on the southern coast of Spain's Gran Canaria.
Maritime Safety in Spain And Rescue Society (Sasemar) said the boat was a temporary built-in small vessel, where 44 people were rescued, three of them being critical. He was taken by helicopter to a local hospital.
The maritime authorities of Spain said that the bodies of five others were not recovered due to bad weather, but they were not sure how many people were on the boat during the journey from Gambia.
The Red Cross is taking care of the surviving migrants in the Canary Islands, a spokesman for the organization said many of the people who were rescued were from Mali and Senegal, some of them being minors.
According to Red Cross spokesman Jose Antonio Rodriguez Verona, the rescued people who were trapped in the sea were disorientated and dehydrated after reaching the shore, some of them were stuck at sea for a long time, some say they were floating in the sea for about a month.
According to the survivors, the boat initially had more than 100 people, including women and one child. After the food and drinks ran out, many people became ill and even drink sea water to quench their thirst.
The situation became so dire that at one point the bodies of the dead bodies in the boat began to be thrown into the sea, and the work of removing the bodies was stopped as the survivors ran out of energy, the survivors said.
The Atlantic route, which is the most lethal on the Canary Islands migration from Africa to Europe, is said to be the deadliest route to the organization, according to Cumminando Fronterus, who died on various immigration routes in the first five months of this year, with 142 women and 129 children who died while crossing the Atlantic Islands.
The head of the Canary Islands government, Fernando Claviho, expressed deep anger at the incident on social media X, saying that the continuing death of the people was ‘unbearable’ and urged the Atlantic not to be normalized as a ‘death path’.
Claviho said it is no longer possible to address the immigration crisis as an emergency situation, in his words, the issue is related to the lives and dignity of people, he said, adding that such incidents have brought forward the need for more effective state immigration policies.
Meanwhile, the tragic incident came amid political pressure on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez over Spain's immigration policy, and in just two days in July, an estimated 72,000 people entered Spain's North African territory of Spain in just two days, and diplomatic tensions were created around Spain, along with protests across Spain.
The terrible risk of this new boat sinking or migrant death came to Europe through the Canary Islands again.
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