A baby girl was born at sea on a migrant dinghy en route to Spain from Africa on Monday, as reported by the Spanish maritime rescue service. The rescue workers from Spain's Canary Islands encountered an inflatable raft carrying 60 people, including 14 women and four children, off the coast of the island of Lanzarote. They believed that the mother had given birth just 15 minutes before their arrival.
The captain of the rescue vessel Guardamar Talía described the experience as beautiful and very emotional, noting that this was not the first time a baby was born on a migrant boat. The Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa, saw a 17% rise in irregular migration in 2024, with migrants mainly coming from Mali, Senegal, and Morocco.
