The number beats the previous record, set in 2023, as a recent report also points at a peak in the number of deaths recorded in the dangerous Atlantic migration route.

A record 46,843 migrants reached Spain’s Canary Islands illegally in 2024 via the increasingly deadly Atlantic route, the second consecutive year of unprecedented arrival numbers, official data showed on Thursday.

MADRID (AP) — More than 10,000 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by sea this year, a report released by a Spanish migration rights group said on Thursday.

Canary Islands president has stated Spain are not doing enough to help migrants, popular party and Vox party preventing relocation laws

After a record-breaking year of migrant arrivals, the president of Spain’s Canary Islands called the situation on the islands “unsustainable” on Monday.

A record 46,843 migrants reached Spain’s Canary Islands illegally last year via the increasingly deadly Atlantic route, the second consecutive year of unprecedented

Spanish coast guards rescue dozens of migrants in wooden boats off the Canary Islands:::: Arguineguin, SpainCoast guards towed a wooden boat carrying 60 men and four women to Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria on Wednesday.

At least 10,457 migrants died or disappeared while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2024, an NGO said Thursday, more than 50 percent more than last year and the

Spain received 63,970 people who arrived through irregular routes last year, including 46,843 in the Canary Islands.