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Canary Islands' El Hierro received more migrants in seven months than entire Spanish Mediterranean in 2023

epaselect epa11049171 A view shows migrants, part of a group of 62 migrants rescued by the maritime rescue vessel 'Salvamar Polimnia', sitting in a wooden canoe ('cayuco') upon their arrival at the port of La Restinga, in the municipality of El Pinar, El Hierro island, Canary Islands, Spain, 30 December 2023. Two new canoes arrived late on 29 December to the island of El Hierro with a total of 181 people on board - 119 in the first boat rescued, and 62 people in the second, according to the emergency teams. The island of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands with a population of about 11,700 inhabitants, has received a total of 14,951 migrants in cayucos since May 2023, including 3,654 minors and 633 women, a figure that exceeds, the number of people who reached Spain in 2023 through the Mediterranean route until mid-December, according to data collected by the emergency teams. EPA/GELMERT FINOL

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