(Reuters) More than 60 North African migrants are living in tents in the mountains of Spain’s Gran Canaria island with no access to running water after leaving a Red Cross centre which they say crammed dozens of them into squalid conditions.
About 23,000 migrants made the dangerous Atlantic crossing to the Canary Islands last year, in a near ten-fold surge from 2019. Expecting a further influx, authorities began housing thousands in camps, drawing criticism from rights groups over inhumane conditions.
Perched on a windswept cliff side above the Confital coastline near the city of Las Palmas, the makeshift camp is exposed to the elements and gets freezing cold.
