Hundreds of migrants rescued off Canary Islands
Source: BBC
At least 227 migrants were rescued off Spain's Canary Islands on Thursday, officials say, a day after reported deaths of more than 30 migrants there.
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On Wednesday, two charities said more than 30 migrants may have drowned after their dinghy sank off Gran Canaria.
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A Spanish rescue service ship, the Guardamar Caliope, was only about an hour's sail from the dinghy on Tuesday evening, according to Spanish news agency Efe.
But the ship did not aid the dinghy because the operation had been taken over by Moroccan officials, which dispatched a patrol boat that arrived on Wednesday morning, 10 hours after it had been spotted by a Spanish rescue plane, according to Reuters.
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https://www.britannica.com/technology/dinghy
dinghy, any of various small boats. Rowboats or sailboats called dinghies are used to carry passengers or cargo along the coasts of India, especially in the sheltered waters around the peninsula. As a small ship’s boat in other countries, the dinghy may be a rowboat but more often is powered and has a pointed bow, transom stern, and round bottom. For racing, a boat called a dinghy is equipped with one or more sails, a rudder, and, sometimes, a centreboard. Small, inflatable life rafts are also called dinghies.
I feel so sorry for these folk, how bad things must be to take these kind of risks 