Seven dead as illegal migrant boat capsizes near Canary Islands port

In the first five months of 2024, 4,808 people died on the Atlantic voyage to the Canaries after departing from Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia, according to open borders activist group Walking Borders.

(Reporting by Javi West Larrañaga and Emma Pinedo; Editing by David Latona, Mark Heinrich and Helen Popper)