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MADRID (Reuters) - Two migrants drowned and one was in a serious condition after they were ordered to swim to the shore by people piloting the boats, Spanish authorities said on Friday. | 10:30am

Spain is investigating reports of casualties among a group of migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands from Africa. Charity Walking Borders quoted survivors of the dinghy as saying Moroccan soldiers had opened fire, killing at least one of them. The migrants said they had set sail from the small town of Bojador in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara, 200 nautical miles south of Gran Canaria. Spanish government spokesman said he was not aware of gunshot wounds among the arriving migrants - 32 m...

Spanish officials said they were investigating an incident where Moroccan authorities allegedly fired at migrants attempting to reach the Canary Islands.

Spain said on Friday it was probing reports of casualties among a group of migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands from Africa, after a charity cited survivors as saying Moroccan soldiers opened fire killing at least one of them.

GRAN CANARIA/RABAT (Reuters) - Spain said on Friday it was probing reports of casualties among a group of migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands from Africa, after a charity cited survivors as saying Moroccan soldiers opened fire killing at least one of them.

Spain said on Friday it was probing reports of casualties among a group of migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands from Africa, after a charity cited survivors as saying Moroccan soldiers opened fire killing at least one of them.

(This May 26 story has been refiled to remove the reference to Maleno as Morocco-based in paragraph 10) | May. 27

A Spanish nonprofit organization says that the number of migrants who died or were reported missing while trying to reach Spain hit 2,390 people last year. Thats a decrease on

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish nonprofit organization said Wednesday that the number of migrants who died or were reported missing while trying to reach Spain was 2,390 last year, a decrease on 2021 but in line with the past five years.

Caminando Fronteras, a nonprofit in Spain, said that 2,390 migrants died or were reported missing while coming to the country last year. This number includes 288 women and 101 children.