Police are hunting for 15 to 20 illegal immigrants who fled after their boat landed at playa de Valdevaqueros in Tarifa, Cádiz province, this morning.
The small boat was spotted at around 10:00 on Tuesday morning by a fishing boat but by the time the Maritime Rescue Service arrived on the scene, the boat had reached the shore.
Five women, two of them pregnant, and four children were apprehended on the beach but between 15 and 20 men fled the scene into the woods.