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The eight-month-old was travelling with her parents aboard a dinghy that left Algeria on March 21. Her mother and eight bodies of migrants who drowned in the incident have been found.
The police refute the claim that there is the "necessary infrastructure" to cope with migrants.
There was a fourth arrest of a migrant previously in Spain. The three belong to a criminal gang in northeast Algeria.
The national ministry of the interior does not believe that there is a specific illegal immigration route from Algeria to the Balearics. The ministry states that, based on available data regarding an increase in migrant numbers, the situation " does not indicate the opening of a specific route". Nevertheless, there is an acceptance that the increase in recent years points to there being a "common route" for the eastern part of Spain. Last year, 1,471 illegal migrants arrived in the Balearics on 110 boats. Compared with 2018 there was a 686% rise; with 2019 a 226% increase. The ministry was a...