The Spanish coastguard has rescued three migrants who stowed away on a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria by balancing on its rudder just above the waterline. In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday, the three stowaways are shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker Alithini II. The migrants were taken into the port and attended to by health services for dehydration and hypothermia, the coastguard said on Twitter. Txema Santana, a journalist and migration adviser to the Canary Islands government, tweeted: “It is not the first and it will not be the last. Thousands of people die each year on the voyage, which is increasingly perilous by the use of rickety wooden or inflatable boats.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2022 01:39 UTC