Rescuers say the vessel was the most crammed they have ever seen.
MADRID: A wooden boat carrying 271 migrants arrived on Tuesday in El Hierro, the westernmost of the Spanish Canary Islands, after making a perilous journey from Africa in what rescuers said was the most crammed vessel they have seen.
The Red Cross group that attended the migrants in El Hierro said this was a record number of arrivals in a single boat at the archipelago. In 2008 they received 234 people in one boat. The seven islands of the archipelago have become the main destination for migrants trying to reach Spain, while others seek to cross the Mediterranean to the Spanish mainland.
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