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Spanish authorities person launched an probe aft discovering aggregate corpses successful the Mediterranean Sea whose hands and feet had been tied, constabulary said connected Monday.
According to determination regular Diario de Mallorca, since mid-May Civil Guard boats person spotted astatine slightest 5 bodies with their feet and hands bound. Police fishy that the victims whitethorn beryllium migrants from North Africa, the Majorca Daily Bulletin reported.
Diario de Mallorca quoted investigators arsenic saying that the migrants whitethorn person been tied up and thrown into the oversea during the crossing, perchance owed to a quality with their smugglers.
The probe into suspected homicide aims to place the victims and enactment retired the causes of their death, a Civil Guard spokeswoman told AFP.
The find shows "the cruelest side" of the irregular migration route, determination president Marga Prohens told section media.
Although astir of the tens of thousands of Europe-bound migrants Spain receives get via the Canary Islands successful the Atlantic, hundreds effort the shorter crossing from northbound Africa to the Balearic archipelago successful the Mediterranean.
Authorities said 31 bodies had been recovered successful the waters and beaches of the archipelago betwixt January and June of this year, the Majorca Daily Bulletin reported earlier this month.
A Guardia Civil boat, connected July 11, 2024 successful Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
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In 2023, the United Nation's International Organization for Migration recorded 8,542 migrant deaths astir the satellite – with 37% of these deaths occurring successful the Mediterranean.
There person besides been melodramatic rescues successful the region. Earlier this month, a foundation vessel rescued much than 50 migrants from an abandoned lipid level successful the Mediterranean, wherever one pistillate gave birth, according to the Spain-based NGO Open Arms.
And successful January, the Spanish coastguard rescued a babe that was born on an inflatable vas carrying migrants to the Canary Islands.
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