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Two-Year-Old Was Reportedly Thrown Into Atlantic for Crying During Migrant Crossing

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A senior emergency official on Spain’s Lanzarote island says a two-year-old boy was thrown overboard and killed during a migrant voyage because his crying angered people controlling the crossing, as authorities confront separate allegations of violence aboard boats traveling to the Canary Islands.

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Because a child did not stop crying, human traffickers threw it into the sea in front of his mother's eyes – just one of several horrible incidents that were supposed to have taken place on a migrant boat off Lanzarote.

A particularly chilling story once again highlights the violence and dangers to which migrants are exposed during the clandestine crossings to the Canary Islands. According to Enrique Espinosa, head of the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium, a two-year-old baby was allegedly thrown into the sea by smugglers while on board a boat with his mother. The men made this decision, overheard by the little boy's tears. The testimony was delivered…

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News.de broke the news on Friday, September 25, 2026.
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