Spanish rescuers are searching the seas off the Canary Islands as at least 300 passengers of three migrant boats are feared missing.
At least 300 passengers of three migrant boats travelling fromTwo boats, one carrying at least 65 people and another with up to 60, left Kafountine, a village more than 1,000 miles away from Tenerife, last month.
Both have been missing for 15 days, Spanish migrant aid group Caminando Fronteras, also called Walking Borders, said on Sunday. A third vessel, a fishing boat carrying 200 people, left Kafountine on June 27 and hasn’t been seen since, the group’s Helena Malenco toldMany children are on board, Malenco said, and none of the passengers’ loved ones have heard from them since their departure.‘They have left because of the instability.’
Spain’s sea search and rescue agency, Salvamento Marítimo, has launched a search operation involving a plane, it told Spanish news agency Efe per theThe Canary Islands Route, also called the Western Africa-Atlantic Route, is among the ‘deadliest’ for people fleeing persecution, poverty, natural disaster and worse from sub-Saharan Africa,Many brave choppy waters and extreme weather conditions of the Atlantic which can cause their boats, typically dugout wooden boats, to drift off course.
The UN’s International Organization for Migration estimates that at least 559 people – including 22 children – died in 2022 while attempting the voyage.
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