Over 1,200 migrants have arrived over the past week on the tiny island.
The Canaries have experienced a surge in migrant arrivals as smugglers take advantage of calm weather to ferry people to the archipelago.
Their arrival came as European Union leaders met in Granada in southern Spain, with the thorny issue of migration in focus due to the recent surge in arrivals on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Another two boats arrived in Tenerife and three in Gran Canaria, bringing the total to 908 people, among them women and children.
The Canaries have experienced a surge in migrant arrivals in recent days as smugglers take advantage of calm weather to try to ferry people to the archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the northwestern coast of Africa.A boat carrying 280 migrants landed on El Hierro on Tuesday, the largest number to arrive in the archipelago in a single vessel.
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