- Around 30 migrants were seen reaching the coast of Aguadulce by boat
- Bewildered beachgoers watched as migrants jumped off boat and began to run
This is the shocking moment dozens of migrants jumped off a motorboat in front of shocked tourists after landing on a Spanish beach.
In video captured on Friday, a group of around 30 migrants jump onto the sand just yards from stunned beachgoers and joggers in Aguaducle, a town in Almeria in southern Spain.
After leaping off the high-powered speed boat, the men make a run for it along the idyllic La Ventilla beach.
In the footage, a Spanish woman can be heard saying ‘Oh my God…right on our doorstep…how scary’.
She then proceeds to use a derogatory term to refer to migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
Video captured the moment around 30 migrants reached the coast of Almeria on a high-powered speed-boat as stunned locals and tourists look on
A baffled jogger could be seen running past the boat as it came in to land on the sandy stretch of coastline in southern Spain
Beachgoers watched on as the high powered motorboat (left) came in to land
Another woman is heard saying: ‘how sad…what a shame.’
Several beachgoers and passers-by alerted emergency services to report the arrival of the migrants, who disembarked in front of a residential area along the coast.
According to local paper, La Voz de Almeria, the Spanish Civil Guard was able to locate around nine people, two of whom were minors.
The day before, another group of migrants disembarked in Rodalquilar, also in Almeria.
Out of this group, around 10 people were identified by the Civil Guard. They included two women and five children. None required medical attention.
Sightings of migrants arriving by boat are common in Spain.
Back in November, smugglers were filmed pushing migrants into fast-moving currents off Sancti Petri, near the city of Cadiz, which resulted in the deaths of four North African youngsters.
In 2017 a boat carrying dozens of African migrants landed on a Spanish beach in front of shocked holidaymakers.
Footage at the time showed the migrants leaping out of a black inflatable dinghy and dashing across the sand on beaches at Cadiz in southern Spain, after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
The group managed to leave from the beach before the authorities arrived some time after.
A year later, around 50 migrants landed on a packed beach and sprinted up the sand on another beach in Zahora in the province of Cadiz, near to the headland of Cape Trafalgar close to where Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon’s combined Spanish and French fleet.
Footage taken by holidaymakers and posted on Twitter showed the Africans jumping off their rickety wooden boat as it reached the shoreline as a father on the beach moved his children out of the way and two men interrupted a game of beach tennis.
After a rapid operation the boat then sped off again with the migrants sprinting off down the beach
Illegal migrants seeking to enter Europe use various long and perilous routes that are evolving as authorities attempt to stem the flow of new arrivals.
Most arrive by crossing the Mediterranean, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). So far in 2024, 64,180 migrants have arrived by sea through Greece, Italy and Spain.
Spain remains one of the main entry points for migrants into Europe, particularly via the western Mediterranean, with boats departing from Morocco and Algeria.
According to the European agency Frontex, Moroccans account for almost half of the people taking this migration route.
At least 6,618 migrants died or disappeared while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2023.
Pictured: Migrants of sub-Saharan origin receive medical aid in the Canary Islands after trying to reach Fuerteventura by boat
