The Spanish coastguard said it rescued three migrants stowed away on the rudder of a ship that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria. In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the coastguard, the three stowaways are shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker Althini II.
Migrants stowed away on the rudder of a ship for 11 days
Spanish data shows migration by sea to the archipelago jumped 51% in the first five months
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MDB please be more specific, 51% of zero is half a person and means nothing, please report facts not mythical innuendo's. Oh, for the record UK nurses earn an average of 35k a year, 19% means the average salary will rise by 7k, whoopie, us pensioners would love a 7k rise! Please get real.