Arrests made after migrant crossing deaths

Policia Nacional have arrested sixteen individuals following the deaths of seventy migrants who are believed to have drowned whilst crossing to the Canary Islands.

The boat – which was adrift for eleven days – had over three hundred passengers.

Witnesses, including survivors, suggest that some individuals were violently thrown overboard, while others succumbed to dehydration during the voyage.

Meanwhile a court in El Hierro have confirmed that they are investigating two of the deaths as possible murders.