As many as 50 migrants attempting to reach Spain by boat from West Africa might need drowned, migrant rights group Strolling Borders acknowledged on Thursday.
Moroccan authorities on Wednesday rescued 36 people from a ship that had departed from Mauritania on Jan. 2, the group based in Madrid and Navarra acknowledged, and had carried 86 migrants, along with 66 Pakistanis.
A file 10,457 migrants, or 30 people a day, died trying to reach Spain in 2024, most whereas attempting to cross the Atlantic route from West African nations resembling Mauritania and Senegal to the Canary islands, in accordance with Strolling Borders.
The rights group acknowledged it had alerted authorities from all nations involved six days prior to now regarding the missing boat.
Alarm Phone, an NGO that provides an emergency cellphone line for migrants misplaced at sea, acknowledged it had alerted Spain’s maritime rescue service on Jan. 12.
The service acknowledged it did not have any particulars concerning the boat.
Citing the Strolling Borders’ submit on social media platform X, the Canary Islands’ regional chief Fernando Clavijo expressed his sorrow for the victims and urged Spain and Europe to behave to forestall further tragedies.
“The Atlantic can’t proceed to be the graveyard of Africa,” Clavijo acknowledged on X. “They can’t proceed to point out their backs on this humanitarian drama.”
Strolling Borders CEO Helena Maleno acknowledged on X that 44 of those who drowned have been from Pakistan.
“They spent 13 days of anguish on the crossing with out anyone coming to rescue them,” she acknowledged.