The migration activist and founder of Caminando Fronteras, Helena Maleno, reports that on the afternoon of this Saturday there was a new shipwreck on the route to the Canary Islands that has left 51 people dead. Eleven women and three children were traveling in the precarious boat, who have also died.
This boat had set sail from the Moroccan city of Tan Tan eight days ago, heading to the Archipelago. After the shipwreck, there were only four survivors who were hospitalized. "Death at the border is caused by a lack of rescue resources and little collaboration between countries to defend the right to life," Maleno denounces.
Meanwhile, the advisor to the Vice Presidency of the Canary Islands Government for migrations, Txema Santana, recalls that a hundred migrants have died in the last two weeks heading to the Islands, to which must be added the missing boats "of which there is a record of their departure and there has been no further news of the people who were on board," he revealed.
On June 3, a wooden boat left southern Morocco heading to Lanzarote, several relatives then reported the disappearance of the boat. The island of Lanzarote is the main recipient of precarious boats that leave from the cities of Agadir and Tan Tan to the Canary Islands. According to La Voz, this boat should have arrived on June 13, but it never reached the Archipelago.
