2023-07-02 13:10:45
A boat with 65 people on board, all men, has been intercepted by Maritime Rescue when it was sailing south of Tenerife and has been transferred to the port of Los Cristianos, where it has disembarked with one deceased on board, according to sources from the Delegation of the Government and Maritime Rescue. One person has been evacuated and is in serious condition at the Hospital de La Candelaria, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The boat was sighted when it was sailing this Sunday near La Mareta beach, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, in the south of the island, where a Maritime Rescue vessel headed that escorted it along with a Civil Guard patrol boat. to the port of Los Cristianos, in Arona.
Migrants in the port of Los Cristianos, this Sunday. Ramon de la Rocha (EFE)
This has not been the only tragedy that has occurred this weekend on the Canary Islands route. According to the NGO Caminando Fronteras51 people, including three children, remain missing from a boat that left southern Morocco on June 22 and, after drifting for eight days, reached the coast again this Friday with four survivors on board.
The president of this group that defends the rights of migrants, Helena Maleno, explained to Efe that it is an inflatable boat that left the Moroccan town of Tan Tan with 55 people on board, 11 of them women and 3 children. from countries like Senegal, Gambia, Ethiopia, Sudan or Sri Lanka. As indicated by Maleno, to this day, another five boats that left the Moroccan coast in June, between Tan Tan and Agadir, towards the Canary Islands, with 266 people on board, both sub-Saharan and Moroccan, remain missing in Atlantic waters.
The Canary Islands route has experienced a strong rise in arrivals in recent weeks, according to various sources. Red Cross workers have expressed that the flow of tickets to care camps is strong again. “There is an upturn, the truth is, we are experiencing the highest figures since 2018 in these last three fortnights. Before we got one or two a month, now one or two a day”, say sources from the humanitarian organization. The organizations warn, in turn, a greater profusion of canoes.
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This is the case of the one who arrived in Tenerife this Sunday, or the one who arrived with 84 people on board —among them nine minors and two women— on Thursday at the port of La Estaca, on the island of El Hierro. These are much larger and more robust vessels that cover greater distances. For two years now, the arrival of people from Africa has been almost monopolized by shorter distance routes: the little more than 100 kilometers that separate the coasts of Tarfaya (Morocco) or El Aaiún (Sahara) of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. This variation forces having to reconsider the resources by islands.
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