20 Sep, 2024 @ 11:46
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Watch: Dinghy carrying dozens of migrants lands on tourist packed beach on Spain’s Costa del Sol

THIS is the moment a dinghy ferrying around 40 migrants landed on a Costa del Sol beach.

The incident took place on El Chucho beach in Nerja at around 4.45pm on Thursday.

In footage shared online, a large inflatable boat can be seen coming to the shore as dozens of men jump onto the sand and make a run for it.

All the migrants were mostly middle-aged men from Morocco, with around six believed to have been minors.

They all began to disperse into Nerja and surrounding areas, but their free reign in Spain did not last for long.

According to Diario Sur, the Guardia Civil were able to detain at least 33 of them, including six minors, some of whom had made it as far as Torrox.

The rest were still being searched for as of last night, but there are only believed to have been three or four still not caught.

The migrants are expected to be returned to Morocco but will be held in the Temporary Attention Centre for Foreigners (CATE) in the meantime.

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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