Five illegal immirants were discovered on Friday evening in a container on the Danish ship Alexander Maersk after it docked in Algeciras. The ship had arrived from Cartagena, Murcia. The five men were weak from severe dehydration but did not need hospital treatment. They are now guests of the National Police.
Two illegal immigrants feared missing
Guardia Civil officers in Almería have rescued nine illegal immigrants from their sinking boat about three kilometres from the coast and a search is underway to find two others who went missing. The sinking boat was discovered about three kilometres from the coast near Morrón de los Genoveses and the nine passengers were transferred to a rescue boat. The survivors …
18 illegal immigrants intercepted off Almería coast
Officers from the Marine Rescue Service in Almería have intercepted a boat carrying 18 illegal immigrants about 45 miles southeast of Cabo de Gata. The passengers, all adult males, were escorted to Almería port where they were handed over to the National Police for processing.
55 illegal immigrants intercepted off the Granada coast
A boat carrying 55 illegal immigrants was intercepted at around 10:30 on Sunday morning off the coast of Granada province. The boat was intercepted by the Maritime Rescue Service and the passengers, all adult males, were taken to the port of Motril where they were met by officials from the Health Services, Red Cross, Guardia Civil, National Police, Local Police …
20 illegals arrive in Tarifa
A Bahamas registered ship has this morning located a boat carrying 20 illegal immigrants, amongst them a woman and a baby. A phone call from someone in Arsila, Morocco, to the Emergency Services alerted the authorities to the fact that a boat had left Arsila on Tuesday on its way to Spain. The caller was apparently worried because he had …
Illegals arrive off Granada coast
Guardia Civil and Marine Rescue have intercepted a boat carrying illegal immigrants off the coast of Granada. On board were 35 passengers, including one who had died en route. The surviving passengers were apparently in good health, despite having been drifting for some time.
Two bodies and hashish in a boat
A routine patrol on the beach in Sotogrande led Guardia Civil officers to the discovery of a large amount of hashish and two dead bodies. The officers spotted a Moroccan man who was displaying all the signs of hyperthermia and, thinking he might have just arrived via illegal means, they began a search of the area.
21 bodies recovered after Lanzarote boat tragedy
A total of twenty-one bodies have now been recovered off the island of Lanzarote following the capsizing on Sunday of a small boat carrying illegal immigrants. A further three people are unaccounted for. The boat capsized about twenty metres from shore near the town of Teguise. There were only six survivors, rescued through the heroic efforts of two local residents, …
Tragedy in Lanzarote as immigrant boat capsizes
Four North African immigrants died last night and another eighteen are missing after their small boat capsized a mere twenty metres from the shore on the island of Lanzarote. The small boat arrived off the coast near Teguise but then, for reasons not yet known, the craft capsized.
3 illegal immigrants rescued in the Straits of Gibraltar
Guardia Civil officers from Ceuta have rescued three sub-Saharans who were drifting around in a small rubber dinghy in the Straits of Gibraltar. The small craft was spotted by one of the ferries traveling between Ceuta and Algeciras and the captain notified the authorities. The occupants of the boat, which was in imminent danger of capsizing, asked the ferry captain …