Three Nigerian men, on Monday, were found in the rudder of a ship which sailed for 11 days from Nigeria to the Canary Islands.
According to EFE, a Spanish news agency, the men were seen by medics at the dock and were taken to hospital at the tanker’s destination in Gran Canaria and treated for dehydration and hypothermia.
Two of the three men have been discharged from the hospital but the third is still hospitalised although stable.
It remains unclear if they spent the entire journey perched on the rudder.
Txema Santana, migration adviser to the Canary Island, in a tweet said the ship went from Nigeria to the Canary Islands without a stopover.
The official said the survivors said there are only three of them left, indicating that there may be more than three who embarked on the journey.
“…after a few days they ran out of food. So far it is unknown if they have had access to request international protection,” Mr Santana said.
The Maltese-flagged Althini II arrived in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, from Lagos – a journey of more than 2,700 nautical miles – according to data collected by maritime tracking websites.
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