Those rescued are of both sub-Saharan and North African origin, according to emergency services.
More than 400 immigrants were rescued this Monday from a dozen boats near the Spanish islands of the Canary Islands (Atlantic), on one of the most dangerous routes of irregular immigration from the coast of Africa to Europe.
According to data from the emergency services on the islands, at least nine are minors among the 420 immigrants rescued from these patera-type boats, one of them with sixty people on board.
Those rescued are of both sub-Saharan and North African origin, according to emergency services.
Last week at least thirteen immigrants who tried to reach the Canary Islands by sea died, where in the first ten months of the year 16,827 people arrived at its shores irregularly, 44 percent more than in the same period of the previous year, according to official data. .
The migratory route from African coasts to these islands has become one of the most used and dangerous to reach the territory of the European Union, with more than four hundred deaths between January and August of this year alone, according to data from the Organization of United Nations for Migration (IOM). (I)
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