7
View comments
This astonishing footage shows the dramatic moment a dinghy carrying migrants landed on a tourist beach on the Costa del Sol - before they sprinted off in different directions.
The video was filmed by a couple who were sampling the views from the balcony of their hotel near Fuengirola in Spain when they spotted the packed inflatable boat bobbing to the shore.
After landing on the beach, approximately 20 men dashed across a busy road and then scrambled across railway lines, under tunnels and through barbed wire fencing.
The men scurried along the road clutching backpacks after running up a hill towards the hotels and out of sight.
It is unclear where the men came from and it is not known what their motives were once they landed on the southern Spanish coast.
Footage showed the migrants ar riving in an overcrowded boat and then dashing across the busy road (right)
Having landed on the shore near Fuengirola in Spain, the migrants then sprinted off in different directions
The footage was captured by a tourist from Bristol who was staying at the Hotel Holiday Hydros spa resort with his girlfriend, 23, last week.
The 25-year-old, who wished to remain anonymous, said: 'My girlfriend was on the balcony first and she saw the boat come in.
'At first she thought it was kids on a school trip.
'They [the migrants] were packed into the boat. She said they looked really happy and were smiling.
'Then she called me and said "come and see this" because as soon as they started running it looked strange.
'They were running the up the beach, across the road and over the railway tracks. It was quite shocking to see. I'd never seen anything like it before.
'You hear about it happening elsewhere, but not so much in Spain.'
Some of the migrants headed for the train tracks and crawled underneath the barbed wire running along it
Two migrants were spotted walking up the road after their boat landed on the beach at Fuengirola
The migrants arrived near Fuengirola on the sou thern Spanish coast on June 7
An estimated 210,643 migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe by sea so far this year, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The main route is from Turkey into Greece and Italy.
This compares with the estimated 146,083 arrivals across the Mediterranean and along the Western African routes between January 1 and June 30 last year.
Since the start of the year, 2,859 people have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean, many of them children, according to the IOM. That figure for the whole of last year was 3,770.
Source: The Fuengirola invasion: Stunned holidaymakers film 20 men jumping out of packed rubber boat on the Costa del Sol and scampering away (but were they migrants or terrorists?)
No comments:
Post a Comment