(Sur in English) Some 640 migrants arrived in Spain by boat last weekend with one of the vessels catching fire after it ran aground on one of the Balearic Islands.
The Canary Islands, as has been the norm since the start of the year, witnessed the arrival of most of the foreigners, 428 to be precise. The rest arrived on the Spanish mainland and the Balearic Islands.
Authorities first received a call out on Friday about 6am regarding a boat with 56 migrants near the island of Gran Canaria. A day later, the emergency phones rang again with a similar alarm. Sailors aboard a whale-watching boat warned there were some 59 migrants, all of African origin, on a vessel off the coast of Tenerife.
