Forty two migrants died trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the canary islands Thursday, including eight children, a Moroccan-based Spanish rights activist said. Morocco reported that at least 30 other migrants were rescued.
The 42 migrants died in the capsizing boat 30 minute after it took off from the shores of Dakhla, including 30 women, eight children and four men, according to Caminando Fronteras NGO.
“Fishermen witnesses to the scene notified the gendarmerie,” said president of the NGO Helena Maleno Garzón wrote on twitter late Thursday. The local authorities of Laayoune saved thirty migrants.
The Royal Navy and Dcheira Maritime fishing delegation announced that six women were among the rescued south of Laayoune port.
Laayoune authorities intercepted in recent days 75 sub-Saharan Africans whose boat was adrift on the Atlantic. 54 people were rescued in a second operation.
The NGO Caminando Fronteras estimated that almost 2100 migrants have died while trying to reach Spain by sea during the first half of 2021.
The International Organization for Migration ( IOM) announced that 420 people have lost their lives at sea while trying to reach Spain so far this year, 250 among them were heading to the Canary Islands.
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