Six people have died aboard an inflatable boat located this midnight south of Tenerife during the nine days they have been lost at sea, according to what its 23 survivors have told the Red Cross upon arrival at the port of the Christians with the salvage boat,
The pneumatic was rescued around midnight in an emergency operation involving a helicopter and two Maritime Rescue boatsthe Salvamar Alpheratzbased on Tenerifeand the salvamar alboranusually intended for La Gomerawhich was the one that finally led its occupants ashore.
When help arrived, some 37 kilometers southwest of the tenerife islandaboard the zodiac 23 people remained “in very poor condition”: 14 adult men, five women and four minors, all of them of sub-Saharan origin.
“For now we do not have much information, they do report that six people have died on the journey… Nine days of journey in total is what they have told us,” he said. in port from Los Cristianos (Tenerife) the spokesperson for red cross team who attended them this morning, Lourdes Hernández.
According to the information that Caminando Fronteras handles, the pneumatics had left the south of the Sahara with 29 people, from a point on the coast located north of the city of Dakhla.
Four men and two women died on the voyage, whose bodies were thrown into the sea, according to this NGO, which was able to speak by phone with the occupants of the zódiac and transferred their call for help to the authorities.
