{"id":4277,"date":"2025-01-16T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2025-01-16T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:46:08","slug":"over-50-migrants-drowned-en-route-to-spain-by-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/over-50-migrants-drowned-en-route-to-spain-by-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Over 50 migrants drowned en route to Spain by boat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4279\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/R-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/R-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/R-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/R-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/R.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Courtesy: CNN<\/p>\n<p>By Amah<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share:<\/p>\n<p>Over 50 migrants attempting to reach Spain by boat from West Africa have drowned, migrant rights group Walking Borders said on Thursday.<br \/>\nMoroccan authorities on Wednesday rescued 36 people from a boat that had departed from Mauritania on Jan. 2, the group based in Madrid and Navarra said.<br \/>\nThe boat had carried 86 migrants, including 66 Pakistanis.<br \/>\nAccording to the group, around 10,457 migrants, or 30 people a day, died trying to reach Spain in 2024.<br \/>\n\u201cMost died while attempting to cross the Atlantic route from West African countries such as Mauritania and Senegal to the Canary Islands,\u2019\u2019 it said.<br \/>\nThe rights group said it had alerted authorities from all countries involved six days ago about the missing boat.<br \/>\nAlarm Phone, an NGO that provided an emergency phone line for migrants lost at sea, said it had alerted Spain\u2019s maritime rescue service on Jan. 12.<br \/>\nThe service said it did not have any information about the boat.<br \/>\nCiting the Walking Borders\u2019 post on social media platform X, the Canary Islands\u2019 regional leader Fernando Clavijo expressed his sorrow for the victims and urged Spain and Europe to act to prevent further tragedies.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Atlantic cannot continue to be the graveyard of Africa,\u201d Clavijo said on X.<br \/>\n\u201cThey cannot continue to turn their backs on this humanitarian drama.\u201d<br \/>\nWalking Borders CEO Helena Maleno said on X that 44 of those who drowned were from Pakistan.<br \/>\n\u201cThey spent 13 days of anguish on the crossing without anyone coming to rescue them,\u201d she said. 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