Dozens of migrants rescued off Spain's Gran Canaria


  • World
  • Sunday, 20 Jun 2021

Rescuers help a migrant child to disembark from a Spanish coast guard vessel, in the port of Arguineguin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain June 20, 2021. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

GRAN CANARIA (Reuters) - Spain's coast guard rescued 45 migrants off the coast of Gran Canaria on Sunday including 24 women and eight children.

The migrants, from sub-Saharan Africa, were spotted in a boat by a passing ship around 38 miles south of Gran Canaria, local media reported.

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