IMMIGRATION
Among the occupants there are 5 minors
Two new canoes have arrived in El Hierro in recent hours with 112 people on board, while the island remains immersed in search efforts after last Saturday’s misfortune when a canoe capsized a few kilometers from the coast, causing more than 50 victims.
El Hierro decreed three days of official mourning for the migrants who died in this tragic shipwreck, the one with the highest number of confirmed victims in the last 30 years.
The first boat was located around seven o’clock in the morning 6 miles, or around ten kilometers, south of the island with 35 people on board. After being intercepted, it was accompanied to the port of La Restinga by the maritime rescue ship Menkalinan.
Once on land, its 77 occupants of North African and sub-Saharan origin (including 4 women and 5 minors) were assisted by SUC health staff, primary care and Red Cross volunteers. A man was transferred to the Nuestra Señora de los Reyes Hospital with moderate pathologies.
The second canoe was spotted around ten in the morning by the GES helicopter and a maritime rescue vessel went to meet it, which proceeded to transport it to the port of La Restinga, where its occupants are assisted.
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