At least 80 feared dead after migrants rescued from boat off the Canary Islands
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At least 80 people are feared dead after a migrant boat was rescued off the coast of Spain’s Canary Islands. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] The boat, which is understood to have left The Gambia in West Africa with 127 people on board, was in the Atlantic for almost a month. 44 people were rescued 60 miles off the coast of Gran Canaria, according to Spanish Maritime Rescue. Some bodies on board couldn’t be retrieved because of rough sea conditions. The leader of the Canary Islands called the news ‘unbearable’ and urged the Spanish government to come up with a state policy on migration. #News #Channel4News #CanaryIslands #Spain #MigrantCrisis ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe Follow us: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Chan
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