The count kept rising in a new wave of illegal immigrant arrivals on Spanish shores, with the total estimated at 300 people in the past three days, Spanish officials said Sunday, dpa reported.
The migrants arrived on at least 20 refugee boats from Algeria and other North-African countries. The boats landed in the Murcia region in south-eastern Spain, in the Andalusian provinces of Granada and Almeria, and in the Spanish enclave Ceuta in North Africa.
One boat with 14 passengers landed on the vacation island of Mallorca.
The earlier estimate had been 125 immigrants who arrived in 11 boats.
The immigrants were being given humanitarian and medical aid in Spain and had been taken to a holding camp.
The authorities had also begun deportation proceedings.
Since the beginning of the economic crisis the number of illegal immigrants in Spain fell rapidly, given Spain's 20 per cent unemployment rate.