A third boat with 35 immigrants on board brings to 154 people rescued in the last hours on the coast of Lanzarote, Tenerife and Gran Canariahas reported Maritime Rescue.
The last boat was located about 3.5 miles south of maspalomas (Gran Canaria), around 11:45 a.m. this Tuesday, and 35 immigrants of North African origin were traveling on it, 32 men and two women. The immigrants were rescued by the Salvamar Macondo and transferred to the dock of Arguineguinin Gran Canaria.
during the early morning
Previously, other vessels with 52 immigrants of North African origin on board was rescued last morning on the high seas near Lanzarote. The boat was located around 1:00 a.m., about 7 miles from the coast, and 52 people were traveling in it, 49 men and three women.
To his aid came the Salvamar Polyhymniawhich rescued the immigrants and transferred them to the dock of La Cebolla, in Reef (Lanzarote), where they disembarked around 2:20 a.m.
Likewise, a cayuco with 67 people on board, all men and among them 18 possible minorshas arrived by its own means at the port of Los Cristianos, in the Tenerife municipality of Arona first thing in the morning this Tuesday.