A man drowned in Irún, a border town in Spain's Basque Country, while trying to cross the Bidasoa river to France on Sunday morning (August 8).

According to Spanish media, the migrant slipped as soon as he entered the water and did not come out again. A local reportedly jumped into the water to save the man and another migrant attempting to cross the river also tried to rescue him, but their efforts failed.

The victim has not yet been officially identified.

Second migrant death in Bidasoa river

On Monday, the Irún town council expressed its "sadness and pain" for the "extreme situation of the youths ... seeking desperately to cross the border and risk their lives."

They said that Sunday's incident marked the second death of a migrant at that spot within three months. In May, a young man from Ivory Coast named Yaya Karamogo died while trying to swim across the river.