The improvement in navigation conditions has led the Canary Islands Route to press the “accelerator”, thus increasing the arrival rate in Cayuco this weekend, which has already added 668 migrants in the last few hours.
In the last two days, a total of eleven boats have crossed the Atlantic and arrived in several Canary Islands, mainly El Hierro and Lanzarote. The last rescue took place in the waters of Lanzarote, where Salvamento Marítimo located a boat with 60 migrants on board.
On Sunday, Maritime Rescue intercepted two more irregular vessels with some 125 migrants while sailing in the waters near the islands of El Hierro and Gran Canaria, reaching the number of 668 irregular migrants on board eleven boats.
On Sunday morning, the Macondo Salvamar spotted a boat with some 25 North African menall adults, and took them to the pier of Arguineguín (Gran Canaria), where they arrived around 12:45 p.m. Already in the afternoon, the SIVE detected a possible irregular vessel about 13.5 miles south of La Restinga (El Hierro). The maritime guard Calliope was moved to the scene, who saw a dinghy with about a hundred migrants.
These two boats with 125 people They join two others intercepted early this Sunday in the waters near Lanzarote with 99 migrants and the 444 who arrived on the islands during the day on Saturday aboard seven boats. Rescues were also carried out in Tenerife, where they arrived by their own means. 49 people by canoe to Armeñime beach, in Adeje, with a baby.
Also on Saturday morning, three inflatable boats carrying 168 irregular migrantswho were transferred to the pier of Arrecife (Lanzarote). Also in Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) they rescued 48 occupants of an irregular vessel intercepted by Salvamento Marítimo off the island, in addition to the dock of Arguineguín (Gran Canaria), where they were transferred 46 migrants who were apparently in good health.
Maritime Rescue also rescued near El Hierro Island 133 migrantswho were transferred to the La Restinga dock, where they arrived this Sunday after midnight without any transfer to the hospital being necessary.
