One dead and 19 injured after migrant shipwreck found drifting off Mallorca

Published on 20/08/2025 - 20:07 GMT+2

At slightest 1 personification has died and 19 others injured aft a vessel carrying migrants from North Africa was recovered southbound of nan Spanish land of Mallorca aft drifting astatine oversea for almost a week.

Healthcare workers gave first assistance to astatine slightest 18 people, pinch 3 transferred to adjacent hospitals successful superior condition.

The drifting alloy was located much than 4 kilometres disconnected Mallorca’s confederate seashore aft a backstage vessel rescued a sub-Saharan migrant from nan oversea who alerted authorities to nan vessel he had been travelling in.

An aerial and oversea cognition was launched and nan alloy was recovered pinch 11 migrants still connected committee and 1 body.

A further 7 group were rescued from nan oversea successful nan vicinity of nan shipwreck.

Last week, officials successful nan Balearic Islands said that much than 30 boats carrying astir 600 migrants had arrived successful nan archipelago, an uptick which suggests nan increasing fame of nan islands arsenic an introduction constituent to Europe arsenic authorities clamp down connected different routes.

Irregular migration to Spain has fallen wide this year, but arrivals to nan Balearics is up by 170% for nan first six months of this year, according to charismatic data.

Authorities opportunity nan number of boats, mostly coming from Algeria, has much than doubled.

A full of 4,323 migrants arrived successful nan Balearic Islands betwixt 1-15 August, a 77% summation connected nan aforesaid play past year, nan Interior Ministry said.

Another celebrated introduction constituent to Europe is Spain's Canary Islands, located disconnected Africa's occidental coast.

It's besides 1 of nan world’s astir vulnerable migrant routes pinch nan Spanish migrants' authorities group Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders) saying successful a January study that much than 10,000 group had died past twelvemonth trying to scope nan archipelago.

But a grounds number of migrants were much lucky, pinch authorities successful nan Canary Islands saying much than 43,000 group had arrived location successful 2024.