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Deaths in the Strait (1)

01 November 2003

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The number of migrants who have died attempting to reach Spain in dinghies through the Strait of Gibraltar or the Canary Islands is already over one hundred. On 25 October, following the shipwreck of a dinghy in Rota on which around 50 migrants were travelling, 37 bodies were found. The rescue operation has been described as negligence, because over an hour passed from the time when an alert was received to when a rescue mission left. The prosecutor's office has opened an official investigation. To add insult to injury for the victims' families, the Interior Ministry has denied a visa to most of the relatives of the deceased, who wanted to travel to identify the bodies. On 10 November, eight more people drowned in another dinghy that was set to arrive in Motril, in the province of Granada.

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