• An African migrant looks at a local policeman after arriving on a fishing boat at Las Carpinteras beach in the Canary Island of Gran Canaria, Spain, Tuesday. Around 60 people, including six women and a 2-year-old child, were aboard the fishing boat, according to local authorities. | REUTERS
    An African migrant looks at a local policeman after arriving on a fishing boat at Las Carpinteras beach in the Canary Island of Gran Canaria, Spain, Tuesday. Around 60 people, including six women and a 2-year-old child, were aboard the fishing boat, according to local authorities. | REUTERS

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MDRID – Spanish police have arrested the suspected organizer of a ring smuggling migrants from Western Sahara to the Canary Islands and the captain of a trafficking boat from among a group of migrants recently arrived in the islands.

The 40-year-old Senegalese man was part of a trafficking organization based in Laayoune in the disputed territory of Western Sahara that chartered boats to take migrants to the Spanish islands, which lie off the coast, police said.

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