- Title: Spanish coastguard rescues 208 migrants crossing from Africa to Spain
- Date: 29th August 2019
- Summary: MALAGA, SPAIN (AUGUST 28, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SPANISH RESCUE VESSEL 'GUARDAMAR CALIOPE' CARRYING RESCUED MIGRANTS ARRIVING AT PORT VARIOUS OF VESSEL DOCKING AND EMERGENCY SERVICES WAITING AT HARBOUR RESCUERS PLACING RAMP FROM VESSEL TO HARBOUR MIGRANTS DRAPED IN RED BLANKETS WAITING TO DISEMBARK RED CROSS MEMBERS WAITING FOR MIGRANTS MIGRANTS WAITING RESCUER THROWING BAG AND MIGRANTS IN THE BACKGROUND MIGRANTS WAITING, CHILD DRAPED IN RED BLANKET WAITING TO DISEMBARK MIGRANTS WAITING EUROPEAN UNION FRONTEX COAST GUARDS MIGRANTS WAITING MALAGA, SPAIN (AUGUST 29, 2019) (REUTERS) MIGRANTS COMING OFF RESCUE BOAT RED CROSS MEMBER CARRYING LITTLE GIRL COMING OFF BOAT VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS COMING OFF BOAT AND QUEUING TO GET MEDICAL ASSISTANCE VARIOUS OF RED CROSS MEMBER MEASURING TEMPERATURE OF MIGRANTS
- Embargoed: 12th September 2019 10:25
- Keywords: rescued migrants Spanish coast guards port of Malaga European Union
- Location: MALAGA, SPAIN
- City: MALAGA, SPAIN
- Country: Spain
- Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AU9U7UV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: More than 200 migrants were rescued on Wednesday (August 28) by the Spanish coastguard as they attempted to make the crossing from Africa to Spain, rescue services said on Thursday (August 29).
The rescue comes at a time when Spain is preparing for the arrival on a Spanish warship of 15 migrants from an Italian port following a prolonged standoff between Italian authorities and a Spanish-registered private rescue boat.
On Thursday, the coastguard said the migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa were found in three rafts in the Alboran Sea, between northeastern Morocco and southeastern Spain on Wednesday afternoon.
They were taken to Almeria and Malaga, the coastguard added.
Some 18,018 migrants have arrived in Spain so far this year by mid-August, Interior Ministry data shows. This is a decrease of 39% from the same period last year.
United Nations data shows irregular sea arrivals from the Middle East and North Africa to EU dropped from over 1 million in 2015 to some 141,500 people last year while nearly 15,000 people are estimated to have died or gone missing in the perilous sea voyage.
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