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Police managed to catch the drivers of the small boat thanks to descriptions by witnesses on the Mazarrón beach
Three people have been arrested in Mazarrón for bringing illegal migrants into Spain after several people on the beach alerted the Guardia Civil to the arrival of a boat at high speed as it rode up on the shore.
The witnesses told police that five people disembarked from the boat, lacking any documentation and showing signs of exhaustion and dehydration.
This latest episode of illegal migration into Spain comes in the same week as the bodies of seven migrants have been recovered from the Murcia and Alicante coastline from a shipwreck. The Security Forces and Corps have stated that barely 10% of the bodies of people who die at sea in shipwrecks are ever recovered.
After it had left its five passengers in Mazarrón, the small boat then took off again, but police were able to find and identify it thanks to descriptions by bathers on the beach, who indicated which direction it had gone in.
The civil guards located the boat in a rocky area surrounded by cliffs, where the crew had arrived after running out of fuel. According to sources, they climbed over the cliffs to try and escape from the area without being intercepted.
Despite being in a natural area of high altitude and steep cliffs, one of the officers began to pursue the three suspects until they caught up with them, and a large knife was seized from one of them.
The result of the risky manoeuvre was the arrest of three people as alleged perpetrators of a crime against the rights of foreign citizens and the seizure of a boat, a GPS global positioning system and three mobile phones.
The detainees, the boat and the objects seized; and the proceedings have been placed at the disposal of the Court of Instruction of Totana (Murcia).
Image: Guardia Civil
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