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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent

Spanish police investigate deaths of four migrants forced off speedboat

People tend to others sitting on a sandy beach near the shoreline
Local people help migrants who survived being forced off the speedboat near Cádiz, Spain. Photograph: Jorge Gonzalez Casares/AP

Spanish police have opened an inquiry after four people were killed as a result of being forced out of a moving speedboat into the sea just metres from the southern shores of Andalucía.

In a tactic the EU border agency has said is becoming increasingly common, the people who died on Wednesday were among 27 passengers apparently forced off the fast-moving vessel by its drivers near Camposoto beach in the province of Cádiz, officials said. Another eight were left near Sancti Petri beach.

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