11 Jun, 2018 @ 14:59
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Spain agrees to take more than 600 stranded migrants after Italy and Malta refuse

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NEW PM: Sanchez

SPAIN’S new prime minister has agreed to give ‘safe harbour’ to a stranded ship carrying 629 migrants. 

Pedro Sanchez made the decision to avoid a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’.

It comes after Malta and Italy refused to take in the Aquarius ship, which has many children and pregnant woman onboard.

Some of the stranded migrants

The UN refugee agency and the EU had both called for a swift end to the stand-off between the two countries.

Sanchez said the ship will dock in Valencia.

The migrants aboard the Aquarius were picked up in six different rescue operations off Libya’s coast, according to the German charity SOS Méditerranée.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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