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Sunday, August 20, 2006
Compassion sinking in a tide of desperate migrants
Times Online report, "... among local people, including the many Britons who have made the Canaries their home, the steady stream of migrants is starting to cause serious alarm." Austin Wainwright, a British volunteer who is co-ordinating the emergency response team in Tenerife for the Spanish Red Cross, says that he sees harrowing scenes almost every day.
The Government of the Canary Islands says that 450 corpses have been found this year alone; but it estimates that up to 3,000 may have died. The Red Cross believes that about one boat in four may sink in transit.
Where compassion is sinking in a tide of desperate migrants
