The Sasemar 101 Maritime Rescue plane has located around 12:00 this Monday a cayuco, with about 200 people, more than 130 kilometers south of the island of Gran Canaria, according to sources from the institutional entity to Europa Press.
Specifically, the rescue plane has alerted about the sighting of the boat after 12:00 p.m., indicating that it was 71 miles (131.49 kilometers) away. south of the island Gran Canaria, and activating the guardamaran Calliope that is expected to come to the rescue during the midday hours.
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Until the guardamaran reaches the coordinates where the cayuco is, it has diverted to a merchant ship that was in the area, the MSC Marta, so that it is close to the boat.
This cayuco, they indicate, could be the one that has been looking for several days with some 200 people after leaving Senegal and that has involved the activation of air rescue meansas well as the radio warning to all vessels navigating to the south of the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife.