MULTIPLE arrests have been made over the deaths of 70 migrants on a hellish trip – with reports of executions and people leaping overboard.
A murder investigation was launched in the Canary Islands after coastguards rescued a stranded migrant boat with 250 onboard.
The migrants were crammed onto a wooden ‘cayuto’ canoe, like this one[/caption]
Spanish cops were combing migrant centres on the islands for the alleged killers – and revealed today that “several people” had been arrested.
Some passengers are said to have been slaughtered in cold blood – while others died of dehydration or threw themselves overboard in a state of delirium.
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