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.