This Thursday, Maritime Rescue rescued 73 migrants from three boats located in different areas of the coast of the province of Alicante, according to sources from this organization. The first intervention was carried out at 4 a.m. by Salvamar Leo, after a French Frontex plane detected a precarious boat with thirteen North African men 96 nautical miles from the coast of Alicante.
The occupants of this boat disembarked at 7:50 a.m. in the port of Alicante and the emergency was coordinated by the Valencia Maritime Rescue Center. These thirteen saved, all adultswere assisted by the Red Cross upon their arrival at the port of the capital of Alicante and two had to be transferred to Alicante General Hospitalone due to knee trauma and the other due to a respiratory-type pathology, according to sources from the humanitarian organization.
The two other interventions were carried out this morning by Salvamar Diphda almost consecutively, indicated Maritime Rescue sources. In among them, 47 people were helped (44 men, two women and a 12-year-old girl) while sailing on a boat 4.8 miles southeast of Punta de la Escaleta, Benidorm, and in the Thirteen other migrants were rescuedall men, from a boat seen 3.5 miles from practically the same position.
Among the occupants of the boat located near Punta de la Escaleta, one of them, A man was taken to hospital due to severe pain. come from a recent surgical intervention carried out in their country of origin, according to Red Cross sources, who specified that the intervention and the affiliation of the thirteen people who were on board the third boat are still pending .
