Eleven lifeless bodies were recovered on Monday off the Spanish island of Cabrera, in the Balearic archipelago, announced the prefecture of the region, which had initially mentioned “about 17” bodies located.
“Provisional assessment: 3 people rescued and 11 bodies recovered” after the report of a sailboat “to the west of the island of Cabrera”, said the prefecture in a press release while the number of migrant arrivals on the island he archipelago or in the south-east of Spain and often from Algeria, has jumped in recent months.