Moment when dozens of migrants jump from a powerful motorboat in front of stunned tourists after landing on a Spanish beach

This is the shocking moment dozens of migrants jumped from a motorboat in front of shocked tourists after landing on a Spanish beach.

In a video taken Friday, a group of about 30 migrants jump onto the sand just meters from stunned beachgoers and joggers in Aguaducle, a town in Almeria in southern Spain.

After jumping off the powerful speedboat, the men make a run for it along the idyllic beach of La Ventilla.

In the footage you can hear a Spanish woman say: ‘Oh my God…right on our doorstep…how scary’.

She then uses a derogatory term to refer to migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.

Video captured the moment around thirty migrants reached the coast of Almeria on a powerful speedboat as stunned locals and tourists looked on

A bewildered jogger could be seen running past the boat as it landed on the sandy stretch of coastline in southern Spain

Beachgoers watched as the powerful motorboat (left) came ashore

Another woman is heard saying: ‘How sad…what a shame.’

Several beachgoers and passers-by alerted emergency services to report the arrival of the migrants, who disembarked in front of a residential area along the coast.

According to local newspaper La Voz de Almeria, the Spanish Civil Guard was able to track down around nine people, two of whom were minors.

The day before, another group of migrants disembarked in Rodalquilar, also in Almeria.

Of this group, about 10 people were identified by the Guardia Civil. Among them were two women and five children. None required medical attention.

Sightings of migrants arriving by boat are common in Spain.

In November, smugglers were filmed pushing migrants into fast-flowing currents at Sancti Petri, near the city of Cadiz, resulting in the deaths of four North African youths.

In 2017, a boat carrying dozens of African migrants landed on a Spanish beach in front of shocked holidaymakers.

Footage from the time showed the migrants jumping from a black inflatable dinghy and running across the sand on the beaches of Cadiz in southern Spain after crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.

The group managed to leave the beach before authorities arrived some time later.

A year later, about fifty migrants landed on a crowded beach and sprinted onto the sand at another beach at Zahora in Cadiz province, near the headland of Cape Trafalgar, close to where Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon’s combined Spanish and French fleets .

Images taken by holidaymakers and posted on Tweet showed the Africans jumping from their rickety wooden boat as it reached the shoreline, while a father on the beach pushed his children aside and two men interrupted a game of beach tennis.

After a quick operation, the boat sped away again as the migrants sprinted across the beach

Illegal migrants trying to enter Europe use several long and dangerous routes that are developing as authorities try to stem the flow of new arrivals.

According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), most arrive via the Mediterranean Sea. So far in 2024, 64,180 migrants have arrived by sea via Greece, Italy and Spain.

Spain remains one of the main entry points for migrants into Europe, especially via the western Mediterranean, with boats departing from Morocco and Algeria.

According to the European agency Frontex, Moroccans make up almost half of the people following this migration route.

In 2023, at least 6,618 migrants died or disappeared trying to reach Spain by sea.

In the photo: Sub-Saharan migrants receive medical attention in the Canary Islands after trying to reach Fuerteventura by boat