More Africans arrive in Canaries

Spain said yesterday that its coast guard had intercepted four boats within 24 hours carrying 248 would-be immigrants from west Africa as they arrived on the Canary Islands, and had sighted another.

A boat with 90 people aboard arrived at Tenerife while another carrying 61 reached La Gomera yesterday, while on Friday two other boats from West Africa arrived at Gran Canaria, one with 53 people on board and the other carrying 44 survivors and one dead man, the Interior Ministry said.