Another tragic night on the Canary Islands route. According to the regional government’s rescue services, between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, the Maritime Rescue Service and the Civil Guard rescued another four canoes that were traveling in waters near the Canary Islands with more than 500 people on board. These sources indicate that four bodies were found in two of the boats and one person had to be taken to a hospital. There were “minors and some babies” on board the canoes.
A migrant is being treated by emergency services upon his arrival at the port of La Restinga this Saturday. H. Bilbao (Europa Press)
The first two canoes to arrive in El Hierro were spotted this Friday at 6:12 p.m. by the Sasemar 101 aircraft. The Guardamar Calliope went in search of them, and her 254 occupants left the port of La Restinga after midnight, all in good condition. of health. At the same time, the aircraft continued to detect boats, some of which were adrift, so the Coordination Center of Santa Cruz de Tenerife mobilized the Salvamar Adhara and the Guardia Civil patrol boat Río Tajo. The situation in these two cayucos was much more critical. The first of them, with 238 migrants on board, required two urgent transfers to hospital. But unfortunately nothing could be done to save the lives of these two people. There were two bodies in the second boat. In addition, further hospital referral was required. The exact number of passengers on this final boat has not been disclosed.
Dozens of migrants in a canoe arriving at the La Restinga dock this Saturday. H. Bilbao (Europa Press)
Another migrant, possibly a minor, who had arrived on the island of El Hierro the day before in a canoe carrying 83 other people, also died at the Nuestra Señora de Los Reyes Insular Hospital on Friday. His remains were buried this Saturday in the Valverde cemetery as immigrant F01, reports Efe.
The Government of the Canary Islands yesterday declared an alert situation for coastal phenomena, with combined sea waves (combination of wind sea and swell) expected to reach 5.5 meters on Saturday and Sunday. This bad weather on the high seas could capsize boats already heading to the islands from the Senegalese coasts, from which they have come in most cases in recent months.
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Funeral of the young immigrant who died yesterday Friday in the Los Reyes hospital, where he was admitted on Thursday, in the cemetery of Valverde (El Hierro) this Saturday. Gelmert Finol (EFE)
The Canary Islands received 14,976 migrants in October, setting a historic record in a single month for the arrival of foreigners in boats to the archipelago, according to data published last Thursday by the Ministry of the Interior. From January 1 to October 31, 30,705 people arrived in the archipelago, the second highest number of arrivals to the islands to date after the historic high in 2006, when 31,678 people arrived during the year, although that number has likely already been exceeded The arrivals were recorded in the first three days of November. The nearly 15,000 migrants who arrived last month represent almost half (49%) of all new arrivals to the islands in 2023, with an average of 483 people per day. The transfer of migrants from the islands to the peninsula has been moving with great agility for weeks and carried out in large groups, a measure that has provoked negative or even xenophobic undertones among some officials of the PP and Vox.
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