Nearly 1,500 migrants arrive in Canary Islands in one day
Spanish coastguard rescued 1,488 people from 14 boats as authorities warned the surge is straining reception and emergency services.
- On Friday, Spain's Maritime Rescue Service assisted 854 migrants aboard seven small, open motorised fishing vessels in waters off the Canary Island of El Hierro since early morning.
- El Hierro's 12,000 residents face growing pressure on local services after more than 8,000 migrants arrived by boat in five weeks, prompting authorities to declare a social emergency on November 6.
- Following a meeting with Canary Islands representatives on Tuesday, the central government committed to adding medical and nursing staff through the Red Cross and providing an additional rescue vessel.
- Authorities relocated 350 migrants on a scheduled ferry to Tenerife to ease reception facility pressure, while others received humanitarian aid at the Temporary Foreign Nationals Reception Centre in Valverde.
- Spanish government sources told El Confidencial that as many as 35,000 migrants could reach the Canary Islands this year, potentially doubling the 17,500 who arrived in 2025 amid the high tourist season.
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Thousands of migrants are currently arriving in the Canary Islands. The government imposes an emergency. More than 1500 people arrived in a single day.
Nearly 2,200 migrants have arrived with boats in the Canary Islands in the last two days, announced Sunday the Spanish marine rescue center, according to AP.
It is a new peak for the Canary Islands: more than 1500 people reach the archipelago off the north-western coast of Africa in just one day. For the island of El Hierro, this is a particular challenge.
On Saturday, the Canary Islands experienced the day with the highest number of arrivals of immigrants in dinghies since records of the Atlantic route began: Salvamento Marítim rescued 1,580 people in just 24 hours, mainly in El Hierro, Gran Canaria and Tenerife. They did so aboard fifteen precarious boats. The figure exceeds the previous record of rescues in a single day (1,461), documented on November 7, 2020 in the port of Arguineguín.
Arrival of migrants from West Africa increases pressure on the Canary Islands, one of the main routes of irregular entry into Spain.
Nearly 1,600 migrants arrive on Spain's Canary Islands in one day
Nearly 1,600 migrants arrived on the Spain's Canary Islands in one day, Spanish news agency EFE reported Sunday, using tallies from the Spanish government's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society. What do we know so far about the migrant arrivals on the Canaries? Most of the 1,580 migrants who came ashore on Saturday landed on the island of El Hierro. They arrived aboard 15 wooden fishing boats. Most of the migrants came from West African countri…
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