Nearly 1,600 migrants arrive on Spain's Canary Islands in one day

Nearly 1,600 migrants arrived on the Spain's Canary Islands in one day, Spanish news agency EFE reported Sunday, using tallies from the Spanish government's Maritime Safety and Rescue Society. Most of the 1,580 migrants who came ashore on Saturday landed on the island of El Hierro. They arrived aboard 15 wooden fishing boats. Most of the migrants came from West African countries such as Senegal , Gambia, and Guinea. Between Friday and Saturday, over 2,300 migrants in total arrived on the islands, according to the Spanish authorities. The Canary Islands, whose shortest gap with Africa is around 100 kilometers (around 62 miles), faces a migration crisis.