A new canoe with 146 migrants was intercepted early this Saturday morning when it was sailing about 200 meters off the coast of Punta Rasca, on the island of Tenerife, as reported by the Red Cross. This is the sixth irregular vessel intercepted on the Canary coast between Friday night and Saturday noon.
Meanwhile, Salvamento Marítimo has explained that 112 Canarias notified around 08:00 that the National Police and the Local Police of Arona had sighted the boat sailing outside Las Galletas.
Half an hour later, the boat ‘Mike Mike’ reported that the canoe was 200 meters from Punta Rasca, so the Alpheratz sea rescue intercepted it and transported its occupants to the Los Cristianos Pier.
Once on land, the Red Cross and the Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) assisted a total of 146 people, requiring the transfer of three of them to a hospital on the island for different pathologies.
This is the third irregular vessel to arrive in the Canary Islands this Saturday after a cayuco arrived with 67 migrants in Gran Canaria during the morning and another with eleven people arrived in La Gomera. On Friday night, three others were rescued in Gran Canaria (56 people), Fuerteventura (55) and El Hierro (55).
