The migratory phenomenon continues to put pressure on the Canary Islands, which after receiving more than 600 migrants yesterday Wednesday, are repeating a frenetic day of arrivals with six cayucos that exceed 350 people today Thursday.
The day opened around one in the morning, a cayuco with 38 migrants on board located in the waters near the port of La Restinga, in El Hierro, without the need for transfer to hospitals and with all occupants in apparent good health.
This arrival practically overlapped that of another cayuco which arrived at the port of El Hierro at two in the morning, with 66 migrantsaccompanied to the shore by the sea rescuer Adhara in complete safety.
After four in the morning, the third arrived on the collapsed island of Lanzarote, which was transferred 51 migrants at the port of Arrecife, rescued by Maritime Rescue.
Boats also arrived in Gran Canaria, including a cayuco with 70 migrants after five in the morning, which was transferred to the Arguineguín dock. Three of the occupants had to be transferred to the hospital, even though they had minor pathologies.
Early in the morning, around 8 o’clock, a cayuco with 64 migrants located near the coast of Tenerife, which were transferred to Los Cristianos, where three of them were hospitalized for pathologies derived from the trip. A few hours later, around 3 p.m., another boat with also 64 migrants They were transferred to Los Cristianos, all in good health.
Collapse in Lanzarote
These migrants join those who arrived late yesterday after a day of continuous arrivals, mainly in Lanzarote. Late yesterday, when the number of migrants well exceeded 600They arrived at the dock in Arrecife (Lanzarote9) around 10:30 p.m. 55 people of sub-Saharan origin, left adrift, with several children on board.
Around midnight, an inflatable boat with 52 people on board, including two pregnant women.
Faced with the collapse of resources in Lanzarote, they were transferred this morning to Puerto del Rosario (Fuerteventura) to 120 people of two ships located near Hutch Island, in this case they were mostly of Maghreb nationality.
