CHILDREN are being abandoned by their parents in two holiday hotspots in a suspected long game migrant ploy, according to Spanish officials.

Authorities in Menorca are investigating a “new phenomenon” of parents flying to their holiday destination and leaving their kids behind so they can be taken into care as lone child migrants.

A welfare council chief on the Spanish island has revealed two youngsters, aged 11 and 16, have been left at bus stations as their parents jetted off home in recent weeks.

The trend is also being seen in Ibiza where two children were recently left on the island and given instructions to head to a police station by their loved ones.

Privately, officials have said they are not ruling out the possibility the youngsters could try to bring other family mem

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