1 day ago · Walking Borders had said 50 people on the boat died on their way to the Canary Islands and 44 of them were Pakistanis. Pakistan has already repatriated all the 22 Pakistani survivors . The brother of one of the migrants who died told The Associated Press that human smugglers had tortured and thrown the migrants, including his brother, into the ...

1 day ago · Walking Borders had said 50 people on the boat died on their way to the Canary Islands and 44 of them were Pakistanis. Pakistan has already repatriated all of its 22 survivors.

1 day ago · The boat had set off from Mauritania on Jan. 2 with 80 passengers, including several from Pakistan, according to the Foreign Ministry and a Spain-based migrant rights group, Walking Borders. The ministry said the boat capsized near the Moroccan port of Dakhla en route to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off northwest Africa where a ...

1 day ago · The boat, reportedly carrying 80 passengers, capsized off the coast of West Africa while en route to Spain’s Canary Islands. The bodies of four Pakistani nationals, who drowned in a migrant boat disaster off the coast of West Africa in January, have been repatriated for burial.

1 day ago · Walking Borders had said 50 people on the boat died on their way to the Canary Islands and 44 of them were Pakistanis. Pakistan has already repatriated all the 22 Pakistani survivors. The brother of one of the migrants who died told The Associated Press that human smugglers had tortured and thrown the migrants, including his brother, into the ...

1 day ago · Walking Borders had said 50 people on the boat died on their way to the Canary Islands and 44 of them were Pakistanis. Pakistan has already repatriated all the 22 Pakistani survivors.

Jan 21, 2025 · South Asian migrants on the Canary Islands. According to Frontex data, between January and August 2024, 91 Pakistanis reached the Canary Islands, an increase from just four registered arrivals in all of 2023.

Jan 29, 2025 · Islamabad, Pakistan ... the capital of Mauritania in West Africa, aiming for the Canary Islands, an archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa controlled by Spain. ...

Jan 17, 2025 · According to Reuters, the people were trying to make the crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canary Islands. Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people on Wednesday from a boat that had left Mauritania on January 2 with 86 migrants, including 66 Pakistanis, on board, a migrant rights group Walking Borders said Thursday.

Jan 23, 2025 · Earlier this month, the Spanish migration rights group Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders) said that 50 people had died in the capsizing of a boat on its way to the Canary Islands. It reported that 44 of them were from Pakistan.