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MADRID (AP) – One hundred and sixty people were rescued from five ships crossing the Strait of Gibraltar North of Africa reported the service of Rescue maritime of Spain .
Of the total, 57 migrants were rescued from three boats and taken to the coast of Tarifa, a Spanish municipality located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. Another rescue boat transported 103 people from two other boats to Algeciras, a port city in the province of Cádiz, in Spain .
The number of people arriving in Europe by the so-called sea route and the Western Mediterranean to Spain has exceeded the arrivals of ships in Italy so far this year.
About 15,000 migrants arrived in Spain to make the dangerous journey through the Straits of Gibraltar, reported the International Organization for Migration
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