Maritime Rescue, the Canary Islands Government and the Red Cross have been searching since the night Monday by sea and air to a cayuco who is adrift in a compound area between the south and east of El Hierrothe same where the shipwreck last Saturdayand in which around 60 people are sailing.
This is what one of its occupants said in a distress call received this Monday at 8:11 p.m. on 112 and recorded on an antenna in the municipality of El Pinar, as reported this Tuesday by a door. word of the emergency services. 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 Canary Islands Government Emergency and Rescue Group and the Sasemar 103 intervene. These searches are taking place along the same coastal strip where the sinking of another canoe took place last Saturday, and in which 54 people disappeared. For the moment, no bodies have been found other than those new found the same night of the accident, three of whom were buried this Monday at the Valverde cemetery.
