A treacherous journey that has often spelled death for asylum seekers crossing the Atlantic Ocean ended with the miracle of life this week, after a baby girl was born on a migrant boat headed toward Spain's Canary Islands.
"Christmas ends in the Canary Islands with the rescue of a baby born in the middle of a voyage on the sea," Salvamento Marítimo, the Spanish government's maritime rescue agency, said in a post on X on Wednesday.
A boat carrying asylum seekers, one of whom had just given birth, is rescued off the Spanish Canary Island of Lanzarote.
He said he covered the baby up and patted the baby so it would stop crying.
The Canary Islands Route saw a second consecutive annual high in 2024, with its almost 47,000 arrivals comprising 73% of irregular migration to Spain, according to the country's interior ministry.
Persons:
Jesus, Salvamento Marítimo, Domingo Trujillo, ”, Alvaro Serrano Perez, Domingo
Organizations:
Reuters, TVE, Salvamento Maritimo, NBC
Locations:
Islands, Lanzarote, Spain, Canary, Spanish, Arrecife ., Mali, Senegal, Morocco, Trujillo