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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Atkinson

Nigeria stowaways who survived 11 days on ship rudder ‘must return home’

via REUTERS

Three migrants who reportedly survived an 11-day journey from Nigeria to the Canary Islands balanced on the rudder of a fuel tanker should now be returned home under stowaway laws, a police spokesman has said.

A photograph posted to Twitter by the Spanish coast on Monday shows the three stowaways crouched on the rudder under ship’s hull, just above the waterline of the Alithini II.

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