Maritime Rescue, the Canary Islands Government and the Red Cross have been searching since Monday evening, by sea and air, for a canoe who is adrift in a compound area between the south and east of El Hierro, the same one where the shipwreck occurred last Saturday, and in which some 60 people.
This is what one of its occupants said in a distress call received this Monday at 8:11 p.m. at 112 and recorded on an antenna in the municipality of El Pinar, as reported this Tuesday by the newspaper. Efe a Rescue spokesperson.
After an initial search, carried out yesterday evening and until dawn by the Salvamar Menkalinan and the Helimer 201, proved unsuccessful, this Tuesday a search was activated. new device.
The Guardamar Caliope, the patrol boat Río Ara of the Civil Guard and the Hades rescue boat of the Red Cross are participating.
By air, a helicopter from the Canarian Government Emergency and Rescue Group and the Sasemar 103 join us.
These searches are taking place along the same coastal strip where the sinking of another canoe took place last Saturday, and during which 54 people disappeared.
For now, No more bodies were found than the nine found the same night of the accident, three of whom were buried this Monday at the Valverde cemetery.
