The Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms said that its rescue boat Open Arms docked in Algeciras, Spain, on August 9. Local reports said the boat was carrying 87 people rescued in Libyan waters the previous week.

The migrants, including 75 men and 12 boys mostly from Sudan, had spent 50 hours at sea on board an inflatable boat without drinking water, local reports said.

Ahead of the scheduled arrival, the mayor of Algeciras, José Ignacio Landaluce, expressed concern with the number of arrivals in the port city, saying local support services were overwhelmed, according to local reports.

The UN Migration Agency said on August 7 that in the Mediterranean alone, 1,514 migrants had lost their lives since the beginning of 2018. Credit: Proactiva Open Arms via Storyful