Migrants onboard

Spanish Salvamento Maritimo (Sea Search and Rescue agency) vessel ‘Salvamar Adhara’ tows a boat carrying African migrant people, part of a group of 242 migrants onboard of two boats, at La Restinga port on the Canary island of El Hierro on Tuesday. Spain’s left-wing government is grappling with a major upsurge in migrant arrivals, notably in the Canary Islands, which has left the Atlantic archipelago feeling increasingly abandoned by Madrid and Brussels.