A baby girl was born at sea on a migrant dinghy en route to Spain from Africa on Monday, according to the Spanish maritime rescue service.
Rescue workers from Spain’s Canary Islands, encountered the inflatable raft, containing 60 people including 14 women and four children, off the coast of the island of Lanzarote, telling local media they believed the mother had given birth just 15 minutes before.
“In the past, West Africans often told me they were too frightened to take the so-called “Atlantic route,” because they know the risks include getting lost or delayed and dying of dehydration, one by one, at sea.
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