Seventeen Migrants Believed Dead Trying to Reach Spain's Balearic Islands
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Seventeen migrants believed dead trying to reach Spain's Balearic Islands
MADRID, Aug 4 - Seventeen migrants died trying to reach the shores of Spain's Balearic Islands after 15 days of travel, authorities said on Tuesday, citing the testimony of two survivors who were rescued from a boat off the coast of Mallorca. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Spanish authorities rescued two people who wanted to reach the Balearic Islands by boat from North Africa. Survivors report that they were driven at sea for 15 days, 17 people died.
Up to 17 migrants have been killed trying to reach the Balearic Islands by boat, according to two survivors.
The only two survivors rescued from a dinghy declare that about fifteen people died after two weeks adrift and that their bodies were thrown into the sea
Taken to the hospital, they claim that the other 17 people on their boat died. The president of the region called for a "specific plan to deal with the migration emergency".
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