(MENAFN) The Spanish media revealed that up to 671 irregular migrants snuck into the Mediterranean Sea from the coast of North Africa to Spain over the weekend.
Spanish Maritime Rescue Services and police declared that 453 migrants reached on Sunday, while 218 were saved late on Saturday in the waters of the Straits of Gibraltar in an area called the Alboran Sea off the southeast coast of Spain.
The migrants included 37 woman and 5 babies, whom were brought to safety by Spanish rescue vessel 'SAR Mastelero' from four various dinghies in the Alboran Sea.
They were transferred to Malaga to be assisted from the Red Cross.
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