• Immigration Rescued more than 100 people who tried to swim in Ceuta during the weekend

Seventeen people were

found dead in a

migrant

boat

near the coast of the Canary Islands, the Spanish maritime rescue service reported on Monday.

The boat was spotted some

265 nautical miles

(490 km) southeast of

El Hierro island,

and a helicopter was deployed to transport three survivors, a spokeswoman for the service said.

"All three had hypothermia, but otherwise they were in good condition," he told AFP, adding that they were going to be transferred to a hospital in El Hierro.

The migrants were all sub-Saharan Africans, he added.

At the moment, it was not clear where the ship had sailed from.

In the middle of this month, four other migrants were found dead in the south of this island in a precarious boat, carrying 23 people.

The Canary Islands archipelago is located about 100 kilometers from the Moroccan coast, and despite the danger of the journey, it has received a large number of African migrants since the end of 2019, coinciding with greater vigilance on the Mediterranean routes.

So far this year,

as of March 31, 3,400 migrants have reached the shores of these islands.

In the same period in 2020, they were less than half. Human rights groups have already warned that the Covid-19 crisis encourages the arrival of migrants. Among them are people who worked in tourism, fishing or other odd jobs in North Africa and who choose to cross the Atlantic, or to help others to do so with their boats, after having run out of money due to the economic collapse. caused by the pandemic.

Last

year 1,851 people died on this route,

according to the organization Caminando Fronteras, which monitors migratory flows.

The founder of the NGO,

Helena Maleno,

tweeted that in the last month "at least" 283 people disappeared while en route to the Canary Islands in five different boats from

Mauritania.

On the other hand, a hundred migrants tried to swim to Ceuta from neighboring

Morocco

on Sunday.

The migrants, including minors, left in groups of 20 to 30 throughout the day, said a spokesman for the

Civil Guard

in Ceuta.

A few managed to reach a Ceuta beach on their own, but most had to be rescued by Spanish rescue boats, he added.

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