Spain: Rescuers find 4 dead, save 19 from vessel in Atlantic

Spain: Rescuers find 4 dead, save 19 from vessel in Atlantic

COVID-19: S'pore detects 20 new cases, including 1 local transmission

On North Korea, Biden should borrow from Trump's Singapore declaration

FILE, in this on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020 file photo, emergency workers carry a migrant's body after being found dead by the Spanish Maritime Rescue Service, at the Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria island, Spain. The number of migrants and asylum seekers that have reached Europe in 2020 is the lowest it has been in the past decade. But deaths and disappearances on sea routes to the continent remain alarmingly high with only a small fraction of victims being identified and bodies recovered according to a report released Friday by the United Nations migration agency. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, file)© ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE, in this on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020 file photo, emergency workers carry a migrant's body after being found dead by the Spanish Maritime Rescue Service, at the Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria island, Spain. The number of migrants and asylum seekers that have reached Europe in 2020 is the lowest it has been in the past decade. But deaths and disappearances on sea routes to the continent remain alarmingly high with only a small fraction of victims being identified and bodies recovered according to a report released Friday by the United Nations migration agency. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, file)

MADRID (AP) — Spanish authorities said Sunday that they had recovered the bodies of four migrants from a boat along with 19 survivors who had taken the treacherous route from West Africa to the Canary Islands.

Spain’s maritime rescue service said that its crews had responded to an alarm call by a fishing boat that had located the migrants in a flimsy craft unfit for the high seas. Rescue helicopters airlifted groups of the migrants to Tenerife, including six people who were in poor health and suffering from dehydration.

The Atlantic crossing from the Western coast of Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands has become a major route for migrants and asylum-seekers fleeing conflict, violence and economic plight exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. More than 2,400 people have reached the Canaries in the first three months of this year.

Last year, 23,000 people arrived by boat to the archipelago and nearly 850 others have died or gone missing along the way, according to the U.N. migration agency's Missing Migrants Project.

西班牙：救援人员发现4人死亡，在大西洋从船只上救出19人

COVID-19：新加坡检测到20例新病例，包括1例本地传播

关于朝鲜，拜登应借鉴特朗普的新加坡宣言

档案，在2020年8月21日星期五的档案照片中，紧急救援人员在西班牙大加那利岛的Arguineguin港口被西班牙海事救援队发现死亡后，将一名移民的尸体抱死。 2020年到达欧洲的移民和寻求庇护者的数量是过去十年来最低的。 但是，根据联合国移民局周五发布的一份报告，通往非洲大陆的海上航线上的死亡和失踪人数仍然令人震惊，只有一小部分受害者被查明，尸体已被追回。 （美联社照片/ Emilio Morenatti，文件）©美联社 ，在2020年8月21日（星期五）的档案照片中，紧急救援人员在西班牙大加那利岛的Arguineguin港口被西班牙海事救援组织发现死亡后，将其尸体抱起。2020年到达欧洲的移民和寻求庇护者的数量是过去十年来最低的。但是，根据联合国移民局周五发布的一份报告，通往非洲大陆的海上航线上的死亡和失踪人数仍然令人震惊，只有一小部分受害者被查明，尸体已被追回。（美联社照片/ Emilio Morenatti，文件）

马德里（美联社）-西班牙当局周日表示，他们已从一艘船上找到了四名移民的尸体，以及从西非到加那利群岛的奸诈路线的19名幸存者。

西班牙海上救援机构说，其船员响应了一条渔船的报警电话，该船将移民安置在不适合公海的脆弱船上。救援直升机空运了一批移民到特内里费岛，其中包括六名身体欠佳且患有脱水的人。

从非洲西海岸到西班牙加那利群岛的大西洋通道已成为逃离冲突，暴力和因冠状病毒大流行而加剧的经济困境的寻求庇护者的主要途径。今年前三个月，有2400多人到达了金丝雀。

根据联合国移民局的“失踪移民计划”，去年有23,000人乘船到达群岛，途中有近850人死亡或失踪。