The first three days of November have left a trail of death on the migration route to the Canary Islands, where 55 deaths were recorded in a weekend in which Maritime Rescue has rescued 1,786 people in 29 interventions, especially in the waters. close to the islands of Lanzarote and El Hierro.
A canoe adrift south of El Hierro in which 48 people died and were thrown into the sea, an inflatable boat sank northeast of Lanzarote with at least five dead, another inflatable boat near the same island from which a A corpse and another dead migrant at the El Hierro Island Hospital is the mortal trail of the Canary Islands route of these three days.
The most tragic event in terms of the number of deaths occurred 370 kilometers south of El Hierro, where on Saturday afternoon a canoe adrift was located by the merchant ship Patria, which notified Salvamento Marítimo and took the ten people on board. that were left in the precarious boat.
They were the last survivors of a canoe that left from the north of Mauritania towards the Canary Islands almost three weeks ago with 58 people, but on the journey 48 died and their bodies were thrown into the sea, according to what they said.
Maritime Rescue sent its rescue vessel Guardamar Talía to meet the Patria, which arrived at dawn on Sunday, picked up the ten castaways and transported them to the port of La Restinga, in El Hierro. Four of them remain hospitalized.
On Sunday afternoon, another tragedy occurred, when an inflatable boat sank about 90 kilometers northeast of Lanzarote, a shipwreck from which Salvamento Marítimo recovered five bodies.
Another 17 people who were on that boat saved their lives thanks to a raft dropped from the air by the Maritime Rescue plane that located them.
In the same operation, 80 more people who were also in trouble in a second inflatable boat close to the previous one have been rescued.
The Helimer 204 helicopter was sent to the scene, which rescued a survivor from the water and observed at least five bodies floating, and the Salvamar Al Nair, which rescued the 17 people from one of the life rafts launched by the plane and those around them. 80 people who were on board the second inflatable.
In another operation, the Guardamar Concepción Arenal collected the body of a woman who had fallen into the water from a deflating inflatable boat. In addition, he rescued two people alive from the water and those who remained on the boat, 54 in total.
Along with these deaths at sea, a migrant who had arrived in El Hierro on Saturday in a canoe occupied by 180 people lost his life this Sunday at the Insular Hospital of El Hierro due to pathologies suffered during the journey.
Maritime Rescue has mobilized its air resources and the crews of seven of its vessels these three days to rescue 29 canoes, boats and inflatable boats, and has transferred or accompanied to land at least 1,786 people, according to provisional counts, with a minimum of 96 women and 50 minors among them.
The last canoe was escorted after four in the afternoon to the port of La Restinga by the Salvamar Mizar, and it was the one with the largest number of occupants of the weekend: 207 people, including 10 women and 19 minors.
The crews of seven Maritime Rescue vessels have participated in the rescue operations: the Urania, Concepción Arenal and Talía sea guards; and the salvamar Adhara, Mizar, Alpheratz and Al Nair.
Since Friday, some 815 migrants have been disembarked in Lanzarote from 17 rescues, in El Hierro 754 from eight rescues, in Fuerteventura 157 from three boats and in Tenerife 60 from a canoe.
On Friday only 66 migrants arrived in a cayuco, but on Saturday 775 in twelve boats and this Sunday 945 in sixteen rescues, always according to unofficial provisional counts provided by different sources.
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