Amadou Touré, Mahamaud Sima, and six other cold tombstones where they are identified as “immigrants” 190 letter M. Thousands of kilometers from home, far from those who can mourn them and bring them flowers, this is how they summer six of the nine migrants buried whose bodies were recovered at sea this Saturday, when the canoe in which they were traveling capsized just a few kilometers from the coast.
A tomb where six deceased people rest today, including a minor, to whom people who, although unknown, laid flowers, broke the cold of the funeral by bringing the warmth and love of a shocked island for this tragedy. In La Frontera, neighbors laid flowers, said a prayer and accompanied the victims in these last moments, because it is not necessary to know their identity to mourn their death, nine others in a cemetery where the word “immigrant” is engraved on tombstones more and more frequently.
They also did it yesterday Monday at the El Mocanal cemetery, where the bodies of three other deceased were kept as 190 M – 09/28/2024 – 32– 190 M – 09/28/2024 – 33 and 190 M – 09/28/2024 – 36. The code identifies the cayuco, which they unfortunately shared in search of a better life, they will also share the date, that of the biggest confirmed tragedy on the Canary Islands Route in 30 years.
Immigration crisis staff also attended the funeral, filling the space with their yellow and orange vests to cover a pain that, while not theirs, almost feels like it. Also members of the municipal corporation and other public institutions.
El Hierro is in mourning, and will be for three days, while the sea is searched for other bodies that may have floated in recent hours and efforts are redoubled to continue treating those who arrive. with more luck than cayuco 190 letter M.
A number was assigned to them as well as the identification of the boat 190 M.
Just hours before the funeral, a canoe with 63 people on board, including two minors, was located and rescued from such a similar story which put the whole island in suspense. They found themselves without an engine, after several days of crossing, they managed to call land, and were found alive in the same area as the wreck. The despair of the migrants, who stood up, capsizing the boat, was what marked the border between tragedy and a happy ending, a few seconds that decided a better fate for this last canoe, with all its occupants Already on at the port.
Yesterday, two more arrived on the island of El Hierro, with 112 people on board, in a trickle that does not stop and which is expected to surpass the record year of 2023. As of September 30, 30,808 migrants had arrived in the Canary Islands, 105% more than in the same period of 2023, which closed with 39,910 migrants.
