10 000 illegals reach Canaries
12/06/2006 21:52  - (SA)  

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Madrid - More than 10 000 migrants have landed on Spain's Canary Islands since the start of this year, the archipelago's prefect Jose Segura told a news conference on Monday.

The 10 156 recorded clandestine arrivals topped the previous record of 9 929 in 2002, as migrants from the facing shores of Africa have flooded into the Canaries by boat.

The archipelago has been in a crisis over illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa since Spain and northern Morocco tightened up their controls at the end of last year.

Segura also said on Monday that Spanish police had arrested a man suspected of trafficking 24 Chinese migrants who were found hidden on a trawler this week near the island of Tenerife, one of the Canaries.

The migrants had been trafficked by boat from Guinea in highly unsafe conditions, Segura said.

The suspect was named as Souchen Yu, a Chinese man living in the archipelago's capital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

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