The Moroccan police have identified five people, two of them already arrested, allegedly involved in sending a boat to the Canary Islands with 51 Moroccan emigrants who have been missing in the Atlantic for a month.
A Moroccan security source has explained to EFE that the two arrested were detained in the cities of Marrakech and Laattaouia, in the center of the country, where the missing emigrants come from.
He pointed out that the police are still looking for the other three organizers of this clandestine trip and that they are on the run.
The source added that the security services of Morocco are coordinating with their Spanish counterparts, through international cooperation channels, to discover the whereabouts of the boat and identify all those involved in this case.
According to the relatives of the missing, the boat left around June 10 from the Atlantic coasts of the southern city of Agadir to the Canary Islands with 51 Moroccan emigrants on board, five of them minors.
In a similar case, the NGO Caminando Fronteras announced last Sunday that another 51 people, including three children, are missing from a boat that left southern Morocco on June 22. There is also another boat missing since June 3.
After being adrift for eight days, this last boat returned last Friday to the Moroccan coast pushed by the force of the waves with only four survivors on board.
Caminando Fronteras warned that another five boats that left in June from the coast of Morocco, between Tan Tan and Agadir, to the Canary Islands, with 266 people on board, both sub-Saharan and Moroccan, remained missing in the Atlantic waters.
