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Spain says it needs additional five patrol boats, five helicopters and a surveillance plane to track refugees arriving to the Canary Islands.

Austria, Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal are backing the request.

Some 7,500 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands in the Atlantic in 2005.

This is five times more than in the same period last year.

About 1,000 more are believed to have died making the crossing in small fishing boats.

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