Maritime Rescue saved a small boat last night carrying 61 Sub-Saharan males, including one minor, when it was sailing about eight miles south of La Restinga, on the island of El Hierro.
As reported by the state agency, just before 2:00 am on this Sunday, the Civil Guard notified the Rescue center in Tenerife of a radar echo, a possible small boat or raft, to the south of the island.
One of the small boats that has arrived at the port of La Restinga, on 23rd October 2023, in El Hierro, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain). The Maritime Rescue vessel, Salvamar Adhara, has transported a small boat this morning that / Europa Press
Therefore, the Salvamar Adhara was mobilised and, around 2:50 am, located the small boat and escorted it to the La Restinga dock, where they arrived around 3:30 am.
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Once on land, the medical team consisting of Red Cross and Canarian Emergency Service (SUC) attended to 61 migrants, all of them apparently in good health.
