6 Sep, 2018 @ 11:16
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WATCH: British tourist shocked as sunbathing interrupted by boats of migrants landing on beach on Spain’s Costa del Sol

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https://www.facebook.com/bethanyleith/videos/10215714870801041/

THIS is the moment a group of migrants can be seen landing on a Costa del Sol beach. 

The one-minute clip shows a blue boat wash up on the beach in Manilva before around 20 African migrants run onto the sand.

SHOCKED: Bethany has ‘never seen anything like it’

The video was shared by Brit Bethany Leith, 20, who claims to have taken the clip while sunbathing on Aldea beach yesterday.

The accounting assistant told the Olive Press today: ” I was really shocked to be honest.

 

 

 

“It happened on Monday too, with the exact same boat. As soon as I saw it coming I knew what was happening!

“Quite scary to be honest as, although they may be coming here for a better life, no one knows their intentions, good or bad.”

She said she saw the migrants run into a car that was waiting for them.

“There was a car waiting at the top and they all crammed in!” she alleged on Facebook.

The tourist can be heard saying ‘Oh my God’ throughout the clip.

The holidaymaker, from Stoke-on-Trent, claimed on Facebook that it is not the first boat she has seen as she uploaded another one-minute clip of a different vessel arriving.

https://www.facebook.com/bethanyleith/videos/10215716307196950/?t=6

It comes more than a week after footage of a boat washing up on a packed Manilva beach went viral.

Spain has become the fastest growing route for migrants seeking to enter Europe from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Bethany added: “It hasn’t put me off coming as I come here often, as me and my mum come to visit a close friend and they live here.

“I think it’s more scary for those who live here as you just don’t know their intentions and there could be one rogue!”

 

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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