Four North African immigrants have died and four others have been taken to hospital with severe hypothermia in an incident that occurred this afternoon in the waters of Cadizwhen the pilots of the semi-rigid boat in which they were traveling They have forced the occupants to jump into the sea.
The boat first arrived near the coast of Camposoto beach, in San Fernando (Cádiz).
There its crew members They have forced 27 of its occupants to jump into the sea. Of them, 23 have been rescued alive, and four of them have died.
Next, the pilots of the boat continued the march towards the Sancti Petri channel, where they forced the other eight occupants to jump into the sea, who were rescued, although four of them were taken to the hospital with severe hypothermia.
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One of them said that they had refused to jump into the sea, as the other occupants had done, but The pilots later forced them to do so by threatening them with a knife., according to Red Cross sources. Subsequently The pilots of the boat have fled out to sea.
National Police, Civil Guard and Maritime Rescue, as well as Red Cross care teams, have gone to the area to assist the immigrants and begin the investigation into what happened.