À El Hierro, en Espagne, l'arrivée de 8 000 migrants inquiète les habitants
Groups of migrants continue to attempt the perilous Atlantic crossing from West Africa to the Canary Islands (Spain), a route on which thousands have lost their lives in recent years.
And a small island with barely more than 30 hospital beds is requesting reinforcements to cope with these arrivals.
Over the past five weeks, El Hierro has received 8,000 migrants, increasing the pressure on health and reception services.
The president of the Canary Islands government, Fernando Clavijo, told Reuters that the situation on the island territory of approximately 11,400 inhabitants was "absolutely untenable".
The authorities have declared a state of emergency and have requested more human and material resources from the central government.
"El Hierro is a small island that understands what migration is. We are very united," Alpidio Armas, president of the island's governing council, told BBC Mundo.
"In the 50s and 60s, we had to leave for Venezuela. And we did so from the same port of La Restinga where the cayucos and pateras arrive today," he adds.
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Since the beginning of November alone, more than 3,300 people have arrived on the island aboard some thirty boats, according to local authorities.
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