The Spanish government’s delegation in Las Palmas said Wednesday that the missing and drowned African migrants were part of a group of 34 traveling in a wooden boat.
A Singapore-flagged cargo ship picked up 29 survivors and recovered the bodies of the four victims about 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of the islands.
The delegation said that two more dinghies with 158 migrants reached the Canaries on Tuesday.
About 100 kilometers (60 miles) of the Atlantic Ocean separates the Spanish archipelago from the northeastern African coast.
Authorities say the islands saw in October around one-third of around 1,440 migrant arrivals by sea so far this year.A humanitarian rescue ship operated by two French charities has arrived at a port in Sicily after nearly two weeks stuck at sea.
Ocean Viking arrived in Pozzallo on Wednesday morning, 12 days after it rescued 104 migrants from a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya. Ocean Viking refused a Libyan coast guard instruction to land there, as it is not considered safe place.
A
solution was reached Tuesday when Italy said it would allow the
migrants to disembark after Germany and France agreed to take them in.
SOS
Mediterranee, one of the charities that operates the ship, has express
relief at the agreement but noted it was only an ad-hoc solution.
The migrants were from eight countries, including Bangladesh, Sudan and Nigeria. They included 41 minors and two pregnant women.
Spanish authorities in the Canary Islands say that four migrants have
died and another is missing amid a surge of arrivals in the archipelago.
The Spanish government's delegation in Las Palmas said Wednesday that
the missing and drowned African migrants were part of a group of 34
traveling in a wooden boat.
A Singapore-flagged cargo ship picked up 29 survivors and recovered the
bodies of the four victims about 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of the
islands.
The delegation said that two more dinghies with 158 migrants reached the Canaries on Tuesday.
About 100 kilometers (60 miles) of Atlantic Ocean separate the Spanish archipelago from the northeastern African coast.
Authorities say the islands saw in October around one third of around 1,440 migrant arrivals by sea so far this year.
