El Hierro asks Spanish government for help after more than 3,300 people arrived on boats since start of November.
Authorities of El Hierro, one of Spain’s Canary Islands, have declared an emergency and asked the government in Madrid for help after a surge in migrants and refugees arriving on boats.
“We are very concerned… by this sharp increase in arrivals,” Alpidio Armas, head of the governing council for El Hierro, one of Europe’s main entry points for migrants and refugees from West Africa, told Spanish television on Saturday.
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“This is precisely what has led us to declare an emergency in order to ensure a framework of cooperation with higher-level institutions.”
More than 3,300 people have arrived on the…
