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EuropeNG walking boundary Condemns 43 people from sub-Saharan region, including 3 infants, who died in a boat Shipwrecked off the coast Moroccan town Tarfaya when he traveled to the Canary Islands. 10 survivors were rescued.
There were 30 men, 20 women and three babies on board at dawn on Sunday, of which 26 men, 14 women and three children will be killed, according to Helena Maleno, a spokeswoman for the association. .
The bodies of the two deceased have been recovered. The Royal Moroccan Navy continued to search for bodies today, Maleno said, explaining that ten people on board survived.
According to data provided by families to NGOs, lthe boat is pneumatic (much more vulnerable than wooden boats) off the coast of Khenifiss National Park, 40km north of Tarfaya, where boats were previously reported to have left the area and ended up in four shipwrecks.
It left there between midnight Saturday and Sunday, and around four in the morning its crew warned it was sinking and sent its position closer to shore.Two hours later, Manelo explained, they contacted again saying There are many people in the water.
The NGO specialising in migration confirms the route from the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa to the Spanish islands 214 shipwrecks in 2021, killing 4,016 people, which was the “deadliest” year on the route.
In that year, he stressed that the increase in inflatable boats was “a new reality on the Atlantic route”, although inflatable boats were very unstable and could easily sink.
Most ships are shipwrecked in the ocean without records, so groups that help migrants rely on data provided by the families of the missing.