Early morning today, a new canoe with 146 migrants was intercepted about 200 meters off the coast of Punta Rasca, on the island of Tenerife, as reported by the Red Cross.
Meanwhile, Salvamento Marítimo explained that the 112 Canarias alerted around 08.00 hours that the National Police and the Local Police of Arona had sighted an irregular boat sailing outside of Las Galletas.
Half an hour later, the vessel ‘Mike Mike’ reported that the canoe was 200 meters from Punta Rasca, so the Alpheratz coastguard intercepted it and transferred its occupants to Los Cristianos Dock.
Once ashore, the Red Cross and the Canarian Emergency Service (SUC) assisted a total of 146 people, with three of them needing to be transferred to a hospital on the island for different pathologies.
This is the third irregular boat that has reached Canarias this Saturday, after a canoe with 67 migrants arrived in Gran Canaria this morning, and another with eleven people in La Gomera. Meanwhile, on Friday night, three others were rescued in Gran Canaria (56 people), Fuerteventura (55), and El Hierro (55).
