At least 881 migrants of sub-Saharan origin have arrived in the Canary Islands this Friday in ten cayucosof the which four have arrived on the island of The ironthree to the island of Tenerife and three to the island of Gran Canariaaccording to Maritime Rescue sources.
The majority of migrants are adult males, but the provisional count also includes twelve women and 58 minors.
The La Restinga pier, in The ironhas been where the most landings have occurred, four cayucos with 441 people in total that have been detected by radars and to whose aid the Salvamar Aldhara has set sail.
The first arrived at dawn with 103 people of sub-Saharan origin, of which 93 men, seven women and three minors.
That vessel was located by the SIVE coastal surveillance system radar nine kilometers from land and the Salvamar Adhara set sail to accompany it to the dock.
At 8:20 a.m., another boat with 112 people was towed to La Restinga, including 110 adult males and two minors.
Less than an hour later, another cayuco arrived in El Hierro escorted by the Salvamar Adhara with 62 men of sub-Saharan origin.
Early in the afternoon, the fourth cayuco of the day was located by radar near El Hierro, thirteen kilometers from La Restinga, where it arrived at 1:30 p.m. with 164 migrants on board, of them 130 men, four women and 30 minors. .
Arrivals in Tenerife
The three canoes that arrived in Tenerife carried 287 people. To the port of Los Cristianos The first arrived around midnight, with 82 sub-Saharan men, 17 of them minors.
Another vessel was located by the SIVE radar fifteen kilometers south of the Scratch Tip The Salvamar Alpheratz set out to meet her, escorting her to the port of Los Cristianos. There were 85 people traveling, of them 78 men, one woman and six minors.
A third boat arrived in Tenerife around 1:30 p.m. with 120 emigrants, which had been located 14 kilometers south of the Scratch Tip and was escorted by the Salvamar Alpheratz.
Three boats in Gran Canaria
In Gran Canaria, the first boat arrived with 74 men of sub-Saharan origin to the port of Arguineguín. The canoe had been detected by radar nine kilometers from the coast and the Salvamar Macondo set out to meet it.
The radar detected another vessel approaching Maspalomaswhich was confirmed by a Red Cross motorboat, and Salvamento went to meet her and took her to Arguineguín with 29 adult males of sub-Saharan origin.
In that same area, Salvamar Macondo has gone to meet another canoe in which it is estimated that there are about fifty people.
