A fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning has resulted in the deaths of four people. A four-month-old baby, his three-year-old brother and their parents died when a fire ripped through an abandoned bank squatted by migrants in the center of Barcelona.
A lack of prospects exacerbated by the pandemic has been leading tens of thousands of Africans to make the dangerous crossing to Spain's Canary Islands. It remains unclear how many have died in the attempt.
Spanish rescuers on the Canary Islands have rescued more than 370 migrants who were trying to reach the archipelago from western Africa. An increasing number of arrivals to the Canaries come from Morocco, whose authorities picked up more than 160 migrants in several different rescues.
Two more migrants have died trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands on a boat carrying 30 people, news reports confirmed Thursday. This is the third deadly incident off the Canary Islands since Sunday, bringing the number of confirmed deaths up to 13.
Since Friday, November 12, the Moroccan coast guard and navy say they have rescued a total of 331 migrants in distress. The migrant boats were headed across the Atlantic towards the Canary Islands and over the Mediterranean towards mainland Spain.
The bodies of eight people who died on the journey from Africa to the Spanish Canary Islands were brought to Gran Canaria at the weekend, along with dozens of survivors. Emergency services also rescued more than 75 people on board two other boats.
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Mallorca police arrested 12 passengers and were seeking 12 more Saturday who fled a plane during an emergency landing in an "unprecedented" incident possibly linked to illegal immigration, officials said.
Spanish police have broken up a gang that smuggled hundreds of migrants across the Balkans into the European Union, cramming them in trucks in inhumane conditions. Police in nine countries were involved in the operation, authorities said on Thursday.
Emergency agencies in Spain have reported that a young boy, who was among dozens of migrants rescued from a boat in the Atlantic Ocean heading to the Canary Islands, has died.
The Spanish government has approved a reform that will make it easier for migrants who arrived in the country as unaccompanied minors to receive residence and work permits. A total of 15,000 youths will reportedly benefit from this reform.