Spanish authorities rescued 86 people on Monday from a boat near the Canary Islands that appeared to be from Senegal, after an aid group reported that three boats from the African country went missing with 300 people aboard.
Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service said it could not confirm that the rescued boat was one of the three reported missing, but it told The Associated Press that the vessel was a multi-coloured, 20-metre-long canoe of the type known in Senegal as a pirogue.
Eighty men and six women of sub-Saharan origin were rescued and expected to reach Spanish soil on Monday evening, the Spanish agency
