A total of 148 people have been rescued along the Sunday in six small boats with which they tried to reach the spanish coastsespecially those of Canary Islandswhere 117 migrants have arrived, including eight babies. Thus, in the Canary archipelago, 117 immigrants from three boatstwo of them in Fuerteventura and one last in Lanzarotewhich was already found on land on the beach of El Reducto, in Arrecife and where, according to its occupants, fifteen peoplethough only six have been located.
Another boat was found at dawn in the Morro Jable area, south of Fuerteventura, with 41 people on board. The third, one inflatable boat that transported 61 immigrants from sub-saharan originamong whom there are eight babies, as many women and 45 men, was rescued this morning in waters near FuerteventuraMaritime Rescue has reported.
Maritime Rescue contacted the Moroccan emergency services and these indicated that resources were not available to perform the rescue, so the Guardamar Polyhymnia came to his aid.
Meanwhile, the Civil Guard Maritime Service in Balearics has rescued fifteen people of North African origin in waters of the Cabrera Islandwhich they were trying to reach in a small boat that was sighted around 10:15 am.
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At dawn, Maritime Rescue and the Civil Guard have intercepted in waters of the Region of Murcia two boats with 16 immigrants, one of them known as a “taxi boat”, whose two employers have been arrested.
In addition, the National Police has arrested the skipper of a boat that last Tuesday was adrift without fuel five miles from the island of Vedrá, in the waters of Ibiza, with thirteen immigrants on board. The detainee is Algerian origin and was arrested on Wednesday for a crime against the rights of foreign citizens and favoring the illegal immigrationas reported by the Police this Sunday.