The boat carrying 64 people made it to the Las Burras beach.
A police officer holds a migrant's baby, while she rests on the sand after arriving in a fiber boat at Las Burras beach in San Agustin, on the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, July 19, 2024.Dozens of exhausted migrants arrived in a wooden boat on a beach in Spain’s Canary Islands early on Friday amid a sharp rise in perilous crossings from Africa, with emergency personnel and a few stunned beachgoers rushing to help.
The number of migrants arriving irregularly by sea to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean soared by 160% between January and July 15 from a year ago, totalling almost 20,000 people, according to Spain’s interior ministry.
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