The 105 people who have disembarked this Sunday in the port of Santa Cruz of Tenerife After being rescued by the Civil Guard, they traveled with 17 others who died Y were thrown overboard in a canoe located 800 kilometers southwest of the island.
This has been reported by the survivors to the teams that treated them on the ground, as Efe has learned from sources of the operation.
They have also said that they left the Gambia and that they had been at sea for 19 days until the boat was rescued by the Río Segura boat a few minutes after midnight on Friday.
The survivors are 105 males, of which 40 are minors.
Eleven were treated at the pier and three were transferred to a hospital, according to sources consulted by Efe.
The Red Cross, the Canary Islands Emergency Service, Primary Care staff from the Canary Islands Health Service, the Civil Guard, the National Police, the Maritime Rescue, Frontex and the Tenerife Port Authority have participated in the operation.
Four boats with 198 immigrants arrive in Gran Canaria and Lanzarote
Four boats with 198 immigrants have reached the shores of Canary Islands During the past morning, among them several minors, the emergency services have reported.
Around 4:30 a.m., the ‘Salvamar Macondo’ of Maritime Rescue rescued 35 people, all Maghreb men, who were in a boat, and half an hour later to 61 immigrants Sub-Saharan Africans aboard a boat -58 men, two women and a minor-.
The immigrants were transferred to the port of Arguineguín, south of Gran Canaria, where they were disembarked before 6:00 a.m.
Likewise, after 7:00 a.m., the ‘Guardamar Polimnia’ has rescued another vessel, on the border of the SAR zone with Morocco, with 62 immigrants Sub-Saharan Africans on board -52 men, nine women and a child- and plans to arrive in Arguineguín around 12:00 this Sunday.
Similarly, a patera with 40 immigrants Maghrebis, including three women and three minors, arrived on the coast of Lanzarote early Sunday morning, in Las Cocinitas, in the municipality of Haría.
