Los Cristianos (Tenerife) (EFE).- Six people have died aboard an inflatable boat located this midnight in the south of Tenerife during the nine days they have been lost at sea, according to what its 23 survivors have told the Red Cross to the Arrive at the port of Los Cristianos with the Salvage boat.
The inflatable was rescued around midnight in an emergency operation involving a helicopter and two Maritime Rescue boats, the Salvamar Alpheratz, based in Tenerife, and the Salvamar Alborán, usually stationed in La Gomera, which was the one that finally drove its occupants to the ground.
37 kilometers from Tenerife
When help arrived, some 37 kilometers to the southwest of the island of Tenerife, 23 people were left on board the zódiac “in very poor condition”: 14 adult men, five women and four minors, all of them of sub-Saharan origin.
“For now we do not have much information, but they do report that six people have died on the journey… Nine days of journey in total is what they have told us,” the spokesperson for the team told us in the port of Los Cristianos (Tenerife). Red Cross that attended them this morning, Lourdes Hernández.
According to the information that Caminando Fronteras handles, the pneumatics had left the south of the Sahara with 29 people, from a point on the coast located north of the city of Dakhla.
Four men and two women died on the voyage, whose bodies were thrown into the sea, according to this NGO, which was able to speak by phone with the occupants of the zódiac and transferred their call for help to the authorities.
They rescue two small boats in the south of Gran Canaria in which 98 people were traveling
Maritime Rescue has rescued this Sunday 98 migrants of sub-Saharan origin, including 12 women, in two boats in which 44 people (38 men, 4 women) were traveling on one side and 54 (46 men, 8 women) on the other when they were sailing south of Gran Canaria, as reported to EFE by a spokesman for the state company.
The rescue took place in the early hours of the morning after receiving confirmation from three ships of the sighting of pneumatic paths in different positions south of Gran Canaria.
