“A baby girl was born at sea on a migrant dinghy traveling to Spain from Africa, according to the Spanish maritime rescue service.
Rescue workers from Spain’s Canary Islands encountered the dinghy carrying 60 people, including 14 women and four children, off the coast of Lanzarote Island.
Describing the experience as “beautiful” and “very emotional,” Domingo Trujillo, the captain of the rescue vessel, told Spanish television RTVE that this wasn’t his first time finding a newborn baby on a migrant boat.
In 2020, he assisted in the birth of a child on a similar journey.
The Canary Islands are a Spanish archipelago of seven islands off the northwest coast of Africa that experienced a 17% increase in illegal migration in 2024, according to the Interior Ministry.
Migrants mainly come from Mali, Senegal, and Morocco, according to Frontex, the European Union’s border agency.
This migration route is considered the most dangerous in the world, according to Caminando Fronteras, a migrant rights advocacy group.”
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