The latest arrivals in 2025 add to growing concerns about the uptick in irregular migration to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago close to the African coast that has increasingly been used as a stepping stone to continental Europe.
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00:00Authorities on the Canary Islands say around 183 migrants, including 24 women and seven
00:06minors, reached its coast on Saturday on two boats.
00:10Local officials said the migrant boats had been intercepted on their way to the port
00:15of Nels.
00:16Spain's Sea Search and Rescue Agency and the Red Cross said they received the migrants
00:21with clothes, blankets and food.
00:23According to the Spanish Interior Ministry, Spain received 63,970 irregular migrants last
00:30year, the vast majority in the Canaries.