A total of 495 people have arrived in the last 24 hours in the Canary Islands after being rescued by Maritime Rescue from nine boats located in waters near Lanzarote and one in Fuerteventura. Among the aided there are fifty minors, including a baby.
Two of the boats were helped during the morning of this past Tuesday and the rest during the evening and early hours of this Wednesday, according to sources from Maritime Rescue and the 112 emergency service. A tenth boat was intercepted this Wednesday at 64 km from Fuerteventura, with 53 migrants of sub-Saharan origin on board, including 11 women and 3 children.
Most of the migrants who have arrived on the Canary Islands coast in the last few hours are men of sub-Saharan origin. Among them, three have required transfer to a hospital for different injuries, while the rest were in good health.
The last three small boats, which arrived on the island at dawn, were rescued by Maritime Rescue, which transferred 135 men and 27 minors to the port of Arrecife.
For her part, the sub-delegate of the Government in the province of Las Palmas, Teresa Mayans, reported this Wednesday that the occupants of five of the boats that were rescued will be distributed in various centers during the day.
Mayans has admitted, after observing a minute of silence before the headquarters of the Government Delegation in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for the latest sexist murders, that the reception system on the island “has been stressed”, but that “it is working well ” and the pertinent derivations are being produced.
In this sense, he explained that Migration is going to refer the occupants of five of the inflatable boats that arrived in Lanzarote between Tuesday and Wednesday to the centers of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura this Wednesday afternoon.
In addition, Mayans also wanted to thank the work of the National Police in the Temporary Attention Centers for Foreigners (CATE), facilities where they can only stay for a maximum of 72 hours, since they have managed to refer them promptly, staying “only a few hours” on them.
