The Spanish coast guard announced on Friday finding the dead bodies of four migrants off southern Spain, as they continue to search for 21 others who went missing.
Aid workers rescued three people from a sinking boat on Thursday, a coast guard spokeswoman told AFP.
A helicopter was deployed to look for the missing migrants since Thursday night.
The vessel was initially seen about 70 kilometres (40 miles) west of Spain’s Cape Trafalgar by a passing commercial ship which raised the alarm.
The survivors claimed the boat had left for Spain with 28 passengers on board.
Spain recorded a 54% rise from January to September in the number of migrants arriving by sea to the mainland, the Balearic and Canary Islands combined, according to government statistics.
The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said at least 250 migrants died on the long and treacherous Canary Islands route in the first six months of 2021, with arrivals increasing by 156 percent compared with the same period last year.
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