A canoe with 125 migrants on board arrived this Sunday morning at the port of La Restinga, in El Hierro, escorted by the Salvamar Adhara, Maritime Rescue sources inform Europa Press. The occupants had left Dakar, capital of Senegal, eight days ago, as they told the emergency services.
None of these people have needed to be transferred to the Virgen de los Reyes Insular Hospital for medical care, according to the same sources.
The canoe was located by a Civil Guard radar about 24 kilometers south of the island and the Maritime Rescue vessel Salvamar Adhara set sail to meet it.
He escorted it to the La Restinga dock, where its occupants were treated by the Red Cross, the Canary Islands Emergency Service, the port surveillance service, the Civil Guard and the National Police.
Senegalese and some people from Mali were traveling on the boat, according to information from sources in the health and emergency services.
The occupants of this canoe have been transferred to the Temporary Reception Center for Foreigners (CATE), in the town of San Andrés, in the municipality of Valverde, where they will remain in police custody until they are transferred to other resources outside the island.
