Two weeks later, 60 migrants who set off from the coast of Mauritania disappeared

The Alarm Phone platform, which tracks migrants stranded or missing in the Mediterranean, said that it has no information to date regarding 60 migrants who set off since December 18 from the coast of Mauritania towards the Canary Islands.
The platform added, on its official website, that it notified the authorities in Mauritania three days ago about the loss of trace of the missing boat, but it did not receive any information. She continued: “We are very concerned about the fate of the migrants. We call on the authorities to find and rescue them now.”

Immigration rates to the Canary Islands

The sea migration route to the Canary Islands witnessed a record influx this year. Earlier this month, the Spanish non-governmental organization Caminando Fronteras counted more than 10,400 people who had died or gone missing while trying to reach Spain this year.