Police raid migrant houses, arrest 101 migrants

Police raid migrant houses, arrest 101 migrants
Thursday 28 October 2021 - 12:13

Judicial police in Boujdour say they have arrested 101 migrants on Wednsday night hidden in houses near the country’s southern border with the Canary Islands.

The judicial police raided the safe houses, where the migrants were preparing plans to cross the Atlantic  towards the Canary Islands, according to statement to the General Directorate of National Security 

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

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