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  At least nine dead, 48 missing after boat with migrants onboard capsizes off Spain's Canary Islands

  World | September 28, 2024 20:12 IST

  The rescue services stated that initiated the rescue process soon after getting an alert. Out of a total of 84 people, 27 have been rescued so far while nine have died. The remaining 48 were still missing.

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  Over 2,000 people evacuated from Spain's Canary Island as wildfire rages out of control

  World | July 16, 2023 13:12 IST

  The raging wildfire on La Palma island has burned more than a dozen homes and razed 4,500 hectares of land, as per officials.

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  300 migrants bound to Spain's Canary Islands go missing at Atlantic Ocean

  World | July 10, 2023 9:25 IST

  At least 559 irregular migrants died on their way to Spain's Canary Islands last year, as claimed by the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM).

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  Lava from La Palma eruption reaches the Atlantic

  World | September 29, 2021 19:25 IST

  Columns of steam that experts had warned could contain toxic gases shot upward when the bright red molten rock tumbled into the Atlantic Ocean at 11:00 pm on Tuesday.

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  World's worst air disaster that killed 583 people in Canary Islands

  World | April 14, 2013 6:59 IST

  New Delhi:  On March 27, 1977  a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines collided with a Pan Am flight 1736 aircraft at  Tenerife airport (earlier known as  Los Rodeos Airport ) on the Spanish island of Tenerife,