In this Oct. 16, 2020 file photo, a wooden boat used by migrants from Morocco sits on the shore on the coast of the Canary Island of Gran Canaria, Spain. Migrant deaths along the Atlantic route from West Africa to Spain's Canary Islands reached a record high last month with 379 lives lost, the International Organization for Migration said Friday Sept. 24, 2021. Those deaths account for nearly half the total number of casualties for all of 2021, 735 adults and 50 children, ac…
November 15, 2026
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Nearly 2,200 migrants reach Canary Islands in 2 days, Spain says
The rescue service said it had assisted 1,324 people aboard 14 dinghies, most of whom reached El Hierro, an island with a population of 12,000. That figure approached the route’s daily rescue record of 1,461 people, set on Nov. 7, 2020.