Migrants using Spanish beaches to reach Europe as body is hauled from water near shocked Brit tourists amid fears ISIS may be among refugees
THE body of a migrant attempting to get into Europe via Spain was hauled from the water as shocked British tourists watched today - and ISIS terrorists are feared to be using the same route.
Last week more than 1,000 migrants arrived illegally on the Andalusia coast, the home of Costa resorts like Malaga and Marbella, and the authorities warn many more are on their way.
The perilous sea journey from North Africa to southern Spain regularly claims the lives of desperate families, who usually make the journey in rickety boats provided by callous people smugglers.
Today it emerged that an Algerian man was recovered from the water and taken in a body bag to the port of Carboneras.
He was dumped on the quayside just a few feet from 20 tourists, including Britons, heading out on a dolphin-watching cruise, reports .
Last year 6,726 migrants were rescued as they attempted to enter Spain by boat.
Other migrants try to cross the six metre-high razor wire fence that marks the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.
But European spy agencies fear that North African jihadis hell-bent on destruction are using the same routes to infiltrate Europe - and could target tourists in Costa resorts.
Around 5,000 Tunisians have become jihadist fighters in the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya.
The terror group is believed to have radicalised gunman Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui who killed 38 tourists, mainly Brits, on a beach resort in Sousse in 2015.
Before he embarked on a killing spree, Rezgui is thought to have made a ten second phone call to his ISIS 'handler' in Syria.
The terror network has branches in Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania and Mali.
Anthony Glees, director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies at the University of Buckingham, says Spanish holiday resorts are vulnerable to terror attacks.
He told the Daily Mail: "They are a magnet for those who want to harm tourists."
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Chillingly, ISIS is believed to be working with people smugglers to raise cash to bankroll their savagery.
Desperate migrants pay £1,300 each for a place on a small boat.
Terror experts say the terror group might even have launched attacks to terrify people into fleeing and then reaping the financial benefits.
Javier Pajaron, security correspondent of regional newspaper Voice Of Almeria, said: "Without doubt, most are economic migrants and not refugees.
"Many never get deported, but just disappear into the black economy."
The harrowing consequences of the refugee crisis were laid bare yesterday when rescue workers were seen hauling 25 dead migrants from the water after the latest tragic disaster to strike desperate refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean.
Red Crescent volunteers recovered the bodies washed up in an eastern suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
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