updated: Apr 29 2021, 04:52 ist
A boat found drifting off the coast of Spain's Canary Islands with 24 dead migrants on board arrived Wednesday on one of the archipelago's islands, officials said.
A Spanish maritime rescue vessel arrived with the wooden boat in tow at the port of Los Cristianos on the island of Tenerife where several hearses and emergency services workers were waiting.
"Firefighters are removing the bodies from the boat and they will then be taken to a funeral home," Domingo Martin of Spanish Red Cross in Tenerife told reporters at the scene.
Spain's maritime rescue service initially said the boat held 17 bodies.