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Canary Islands welcome more than 200 migrants in recent hours on four boats

Three boats have arrived in the last few hours on the coast of the Canary Islands, intercepted in the waters near Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria by Maritime Rescue, with a total of 194 migrantsThe protocol was activated for the rescue of the last one in La Gomera with about 15 people on board.

On Saturday around 7 p.m., the Urania Maritime Guard saved 58 peopleSpecifically, 53 men, four women and a minor, and transferred them to the pier of Arrecife (Lanzarote), where they disembarked around 9:45 p.m.

It was the first Saturday, since after 22:00 the second arrived, rescued by the salvamar Izar with 83 sub-Saharan migrants71 men, eleven women and a minor, who were transferred to the Gran Tarajal dock (Fuerteventura), disembarked on Sunday after 4:30 in the morning.

The Talía maritime guard also spotted an irregular vessel with 53 migrants sub-Saharans, 44 men and nine women, in the waters near Gran Canaria, whom he accompanied to the dock of Arguineguín (Gran Canaria), where they disembarked around 9 a.m.

On this boat in the waters of Gran Canaria, according to the first assessment, the migrants are in good health.

Furthermore, the protocol was activated after locating a boat very close to San Sebastián de la Gomera, with some 15 people on board of which further details are unknown at this time.

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