Maritime Rescue has rescued this Sunday afternoon a dozen people who sailed in a boat through the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar towards the coast of Cadiz.
Maritime Rescue sources have informed Europa Press that at around 5:20 p.m., the Civil Guard warned that one of its helicopters he had sighted a small boat sailing in waters southeast of Trafalgar with between ten and 12 people on board. The Salvamar Enif boat and the Helimer 204 helicopter were mobilized, and the aforementioned rescue ship managed to pick up the people who were sailing in the boat, for their transfer to port.
ground arrests
Hours before, the Civil Guard intercepted 15 immigrants who arrived in Eivissa by boat. The irregular entry It occurred early in the morning in the Sal Rossa area, on the coast of the municipality of Sant Josep, as reported by the Government Delegation of the Balearic Islands.
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The arrests took place on land. The migrants are all men and they are in apparent good health.
So far in 2022, 12 boats have already reached the coast of the Balearic Islands and have been rescued 172 migrants, according to the account of Efe. In 2021, 161 boats arrived in the Balearic Islands in which 2,343 migrants arrived from North Africa. The previous year, 112 small boats had arrived with 1,464 immigrants on board.
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