51 Illegal migrant disappeared after the boat that came out of the shores of North Africa and went to the Canary Islands in the south-west of Spain sank in the Atlantic Ocean.
The official Spanish news agency EFE, based on sources in the coastal protection of the Canary Islands, reported that the boat with illegal migrants sank 110 kilometers from El Jairro, one of the Canary Islands.
A message about a sinking boat was received in the coast guard in the morning from an oil tanker called “Beskidi”, who was heading from Brazil to the Spanish port of Kartate.
Spanish coastal guard, who sent a boat and helicopter to the region, saved 9 illegal migrants trying to survive, holding on to a small part of the boat, more than half of which sank. According to this information, 51 people went missing.
The surviving illegal migrants, all of which men, in their first statements by the Spanish authorities, reported that they were waiting for help, keeping in the sea for about two days.
Illegal migrants are taken under surveillance in the hospital. They stated that they hit the road from the coast of M’Bur in Senegal 9 days ago.
Over the past 48 hours 220 illegal migrants, the Canary Islands of Spain consisting of 4 different groups.