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From News 24:

Madrid - Spain's Interior Ministry will authorise police to dress undocumented immigrants in straitjackets and helmets during repatriation flights, the daily El Pais reported on Monday.

Police may resort to the measures when they deem it necessary to protect illegal immigrants from hurting themselves in attempts to prevent their expulsion.

Police may not drug immigrants or use disproportionate violence, according to new guidelines prepared by the ministry, which were described as being in line with Council of Europe norms.

Spain's Canary Islands have received more than 5 000 Africans this year, about 50% less than during the corresponding period in 2006.

The drop in numbers is attributed partly to increased repatriations. More than 8 000 migrants have been flown back to their home countries so far this year.

The new guidelines were prepared after a Nigerian immigrant died during a repatriation flight in June.

Osamuyia Aikpitanhi had been handcuffed and gagged. Police said he had violently resisted his expulsion.

Madrid - Authorities in Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta have detained 239 would-be immigrants trying to gain entry to the Spanish mainland by hiding in lorries and fairground attractions, the interior ministry said on Wednesday.

The lorries were used by Spanish fairground entertainers to carry merry-go-rounds to the territory during July 28-August 5 celebrations of local patron saints.

The migrants - 230 from Morocco and 15 of them minors - arrived in Ceuta pretending to visit the fairgrounds but sought to hide in the trucks before they returned to Algeciras in southern Spain by ferry.

Ceuta authorities had been on the lookout after a large number of migrants hid in the vehicles in previous years.


Santa Cruz - Rescuers searched for a second day on Friday off Spain's Canary Islands for about 50 African migrants who are missing and feared drowned after their boat capsized in heavy seas.

"We are continuing to search," a spokesperson for the Spanish sea rescue organisation Salvamento Maritimo told AFP.

Forty-eight people were plucked from the Mediterranean by two maritime rescue vessels on Thursday after their fishing boat capsized in 3m waves whipped up by strong winds, around 100 nautical miles southwest of Tenerife.

But hopes were fading for about 50 others whom survivors say were on the vessel when it overturned as it was being approached by one of the Spanish boats.

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