New tragic night on the Canary Islands route. Maritime Rescue and the Civil Guard have rescued between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning another four canoes that were sailing in waters near the Canary Islands with more than 500 people on board, according to the emergency services of the regional government. These sources detailed that four bodies were found in two of the boats and it was necessary to transfer one person to a hospital. “Minors and some babies” were traveling on board the canoes.
The first two canoes to arrive in El Hierro were sighted at 6:12 p.m. this Friday by the Sasemar 101 plane. Guardamar went out in search of them. Calliope, and its 254 occupants disembarked after midnight in the port of La Restinga, all in good health. At the same time, the aircraft continued to detect vessels, some of them adrift, so the Santa Cruz de Tenerife coordination center mobilized Salvamar Adhara now the patrol car Tagus River, of the Civil Guard. The situation in these two cayucos was much more critical. The first of them, with 238 migrants on board, required two urgent transfers to the hospital. But, unfortunately, nothing could be done to save the lives of those two people. There were two bodies in the second boat. In addition, another hospital referral has been necessary. The exact number of people traveling on this last boat has not been revealed.
On Friday, another migrant, possibly a minor, who had arrived on the island of El Hierro the day before in a canoe in which 83 other people were traveling, also died at the Nuestra Señora de Los Reyes Insular Hospital. His mortal remains were buried this Saturday in the Valverde cemetery as Immigrant F01reports 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) that will probably reach 5.5 meters during Saturday and Sunday. This bad weather on the high seas could capsize boats that are already traveling to the islands from the Senegalese coasts, which is where they have come from in most cases in recent months.
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The Canary Islands received 14,976 migrants in October, which marks a historical record in a single month in 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, until now the second highest number of arrivals to the islands after the historical maximum recorded in 2006, when 31,678 people arrived throughout the year, although this figure is probably already has been surpassed with the arrivals registered in the first three days of November. The almost 15,000 migrants who arrived last month represent almost half (49%) of the total entries 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 carried out for weeks with great agility and in large groups, a measure that has sparked speeches of rejection or even xenophobic overtones from some public officials of the PP and Vox.
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