Maritime Rescue rescued a canoe with 25 sub-Saharan people on board on Friday nightor -all males- south of Gran Canariaand is currently transferring another boat that it located early this Saturday morning to the La Restinga dock, in The iron.
There is still no more information about the second boat, only that it was received at the Rescue Coordination Center in Tenerife a warning with a possible echo of the SIVE radar of the Civil Guard around 8:20 in the morning, local time, with a possible patera or cayuco 17 kilometers south of the smallest island of the archipelagosources from the state company have informed EFE.
The Adhara sea rescue was mobilized to the site, whose crew located a cayuco stopped around 9:00 in the morning, Therefore, he has proceeded to transfer him to La Restinga, where they are scheduled to arrive at 10:00 am.
For its part, around 8:00 p.m., local time, on Fridaya warning was received after a radar echo for a possible vessel eight miles south of Gran Canariaso the salvamar Macondo went to the aforementioned point and located it about an hour later, adrift without fuel, rescuing the 25 people who were traveling on board and transferring them to the Arguineguín dock.
Once there, the 1-1-2 and Red Cross personnel attended to them. without requiring any hospital transferhas reported the Emergency and Security Coordinating Center (Cecoes).