More than 80 people including a baby feared dead after boat carrying 127 drifts in Atlantic for 27 days
More than 80 people, including a baby, are feared to have died in a boat that was adrift in the Atlantic Ocean for 27 days. Spanish Maritime Rescue teams located the vessel some 65 nautical miles southwest of Gran Canaria’s coastal town of Arguineguín on Wednesday and found 44 survivors, with five dead bodies also […]
More than 80 individuals, including a baby, are believed to have perished on a boat that drifted in the Atlantic for 27 days, according to Spanish Maritime Rescue teams. The vessel, carrying 127 people, was located about 65 nautical miles southwest of Gran Canaria's coastal town of Arguineguín on Wednesday. Among the survivors were 44 men from sub-Saharan Africa.
Five bodies were found on the boat, but rescuers had to leave them behind due to treacherous sea conditions. The organisation could not confirm the total number of people who set sail from The Gambia in West Africa in early August. The 44 survivors were treated in varying conditions, with three requiring hospitalization in critical condition.
They were transported either by sea or airlifted to Gran Canaria, where they disembarked on Thursday morning. The Canaries' head, Fernando Clavijo, expressed his outrage over the ongoing loss of lives, stating that the Atlantic is a deadly death trap.
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