Migrants replace tourists on Canary Islands’ beaches as human traffickers target Spanish resort

Around 8,000 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands this year, the largest number in more than a decade, reports Graham Keeley

In normal times, the port of Mogán is popular with British tourists who come to this Canary Islands' resort to enjoy the year-round sunshine.

This year, however, tourists have been replaced by new arrivals: migrants who are arriving in fleets of flimsy boats almost every day from Africa.

Instead of tourists filling up the hotels in this resort on the island of Gran Canaria, over 1,350 migrants, among them women and children, are camped out in a makeshift camp in the port area called Arguineguin.