{"id":140506,"date":"2025-05-29T04:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140506\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T04:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T04:39:15","slug":"migrant-boat-capsize-kills-seven-in-spains-canary-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/140506\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrant boat capsize kills seven in Spain\u2019s Canary Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1316336_7921788_Boat2_akhbar.jpg\" alt=\"A view shows emergency services trying to rescue migrants from the water, as a migrant boat capsized as rescuers were escorting it to port in Spains Canary Islands, in La Restinga, Spain May 28, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a video. \u2014Reuters\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A view shows emergency services trying to rescue migrants from the water, as a migrant boat capsized as rescuers were escorting it to port in Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands, in La Restinga, Spain May 28, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a video. \u2014Reuters<\/p>\n<p>MADRID: Four women and three girls drowned on Wednesday after migrants disembarking an overcrowded boat in Spain\u00b4s Canary Islands accidentally capsized the vessel, rescuers said, in the latest tragedy on the perilous route.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services in the Atlantic archipelago confirmed the seven deaths \u201cafter the capsizing of a vessel\u201d in La Restinga port on the island of El Hierro. They said on X that one of the girls was aged five and another 16.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u00b4s maritime rescue service, which located the boat some six nautical miles from shore, said it was carrying 159 people, including 49 women and 32 minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A view shows emergency services trying to rescue migrants from the water, as a migrant boat capsized as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[15002,60962,60960,2000,299,256,32453,60961,32635,58029,104,7210],"class_list":{"0":"post-140506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-boat","9":"tag-canary","10":"tag-capsize","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-in","14":"tag-islands","15":"tag-kills","16":"tag-migrant","17":"tag-seven","18":"tag-spain","19":"tag-spains"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114589280784226426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}