Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Apr 21 (EFE).- Salvamento Marítimo has located this Friday 39 men of sub-Saharan origin in a pneumatic south of Fuerteventura, in the twelfth rescue that it has carried out so far this week in the Canary Islands, with a total of 621 people saved.
This last group of African men had left the coast of El Aaiún (Sahara) last morning and received the help of Salvamar Al Nair when they were some 50 kilometers south of the town of Morro Jable, in Fuerteventura.
They are expected to disembark in the port of Gran Tarajal around 4:20 p.m. in the Canary Islands.
The arrivals of immigrants by boat to the Canary Islands accumulate a decrease of 62 percent since the beginning of the year, with 2,376 people rescued in the surroundings of the islands, compared to 3,983 in the same period of the previous year, according to the last biweekly count of the Ministry Interior, closed on April 15.
However, in the last week there has been a striking upturn, with twelve arrivals in five days (six to Lanzarote, three to Gran Canaria and three to Fuerteventura).
To the 621 people who were on board these boats, inflatable boats and canoes are added the 61 who were shipwrecked on Wednesday heading to Lanzarote in waters under Moroccan responsibility, in a tragedy that cost the lives of 19 people, as reported by the group Caminando Fronteras. . EFE