BARCELONA: Spanish police say three or more people have died and four are still lost following a migrant ship carrying almost 50 passengers capsized in Spain’s Canary Islands.
The ship was approaching the coast of Orzola to the island of Lanzarote on Thursday night as it turned a couple of meters (yards) out of property, hurling the passengers to the water.
Emergency workers rescued 41 individuals, including 19 states and seven minors, together with sub-Saharan nationalities.
They recovered the bodies of two guys and one girl.
Spain’s federal police said emergency workers continued looking Friday for four people, such as a young child.
Two more ships carrying out a total of 110 migrant passengers achieved the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura and El Hierro on Friday, in accordance with the Canaries’ emergency providers.
In the past two decades, the amount of migrants and also asylum-seekers embarking about the dangerous Atlantic voyage from the coast of West Africa into the Spanish archipelago has improved significantly, with over 23,000 arrivals by sea into the Canaries at 2020 and almost 6,000 arrivals to date this season.
Border closures and limitations on aviation throughout the Covid-19 pandemic have partially contributed to the rise in traffic, and tougher border controls to stop Mediterranean Sea crossings into Europe.
The most recent deaths in Orzola increase this year’s price on the Atlantic path to the Canaries to 130 missing or dead, according to the UN’s migration bureau’s Missing Migrants Project.
Of those deaths recorded up to now, this season, just 58 bodies have been recovered.
The International Organization for Migration admits that the amount is probably an undercount of the true death toll, rather than all of reports could be verified.