The Maritime Rescue vessel ‘Salvamar Al Nair’ has intercepted on the afternoon of this Monday, August 21, 2023, a boat with 26 North African migrants on board one mile northeast of Lanzarote. All are in apparent good health. Maritime Rescue transferred them after the rescue to the Puerto Naos pier, in Arrecife. He Emergency and Security Coordination Center (Cecoes) 112 of the Government of the Canary Islands has detailed that the A boat with 26 people had arrived in the afternoon at a steep and difficult-to-access area near Charco del Palo, in the Lanzarote municipality of Would do.
It is the second boat located this Monday near the coast of Lanzarote. The first was transferred to the Puerto Naos dock around seven in the morning with 54 people on board, including twelve women and one minor. Both boats join the two canoes that arrived on this day at the iron island and the one that was sighted by a merchant ship 100 miles south of Gran Canaria at noon this Monday. In total some 296 migrants counted this Monday in the Canary Islands.
A total of 70 people have been sighted this Monday afternoon aboard a cayuco in the vicinity of the La Restinga dockin The iron.
Before this cayuco, Maritime Rescue had rescued two boats with 73 people on board in the last few hours off the coast of Lanzarote and south of Gran Canaria.
A first cayuco was sighted by a merchant ship 100 miles south of Gran Canaria at noon this Monday, as reported to EFE by the state society, which mobilized the Salvamar Macondo to go to the place, asking the ship to remain guarding the boat.
Upon reaching the point in the Atlantic where the cayuco was located, the Salvamar Macondo proceeded to rescue its occupants, 47 people of sub-Saharan origin, 46 men and one woman.
After boarding the Salvamar, the transfer to the dock of Arguineguinin Gran Canaria, where they are expected to arrive around 00:00 peninsular time.
This pneumatic to engine It was carrying 26 people, according to Maritime Rescue, all of them men of North African origin.
Both a patrol of the Civil Guard such as Salvamar Al Nair traveled to the point from which the notice was received and have proceeded to rescue the migrants and take them to Puerto Naos, in Reefwhere they will disembark.
Are two boats join another two that had arrived on the coasts of Lanzarote and El Hierro during the morning with 128 sub-Saharan migrants on board, of which only one needed to be transferred to a hospital.
The first was transferred to the Puerto Naos dock around seven in the morning with 54 people on board, including twelve women and one minor, while the second was sighted near El Hierro with 74 sub-Saharan Africans inside, four of them minors and three women.
