Airport closed as La Palma volcano eruption intensifies torontosun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from torontosun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An expert guide to the best adults-only hotels in Tenerife. Discover top hotels for adults-only holidays in Tenerife in locations including Costa Adeje and more.
On the Canary Island of La Gomera there is a special form of communication: the whistled language Silbo Gomero. Find out why this tradition is still preserved today in part fourteen of our series "Extreme Places".
Archyde
April 29, 2021 by archyde
Migrants taken in by the Spanish Red Cross, in Arona, on the island of Tenerife, Spain, April 27, 2021. DESIREE MARTIN / AFP
A boat found adrift off the coast of one of the Canary Islands with the corpses of twenty-four migrants on board arrived on the island of Tenerife on Wednesday April 28, official sources said.
A Spanish rescue ship towed the boat into the port of Los Cristianos. The maritime rescue services which had, at first, reported a toll of seventeen dead, after counting made once the boat arrived in port, revealed a toll of twenty-four dead, including two minors. .
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.