FILE PHOTO - Migrants, part of a group intercepted aboard a dinghy off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea, are led by a Spanish police officer after arriving on a rescue boat at the port of Malaga, Spain January 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jon Nazca
MADRID (Reuters) - Europe's border agency expects a further increase in arrivals of illegal migrants to Spain by sea this year after numbers more than doubled in 2017, with the flows boosted by the use of fast boats, its director said on Friday.
Some 22,900 people were detected as they reached Spain via Morocco or Algeria last year, up from 10,231 in 2016, a steep increase that is boosted by migration from these two northern African countries.
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