A child is in critical condition after going into cardiorespiratory arrest | Twenty people disembarked this Thursday in Los Cocoteros and another 50 have been rescued this Friday morning
Maritime Rescue has helped some 317 people in seven inflatable boats in a frantic night of rescues in Lanzarote, in which one of the assisted boats capsized and eight of its occupants had to be taken out of the water by helicopter, including a critically ill child and a pregnant woman, according to the Lanzarote Security and Emergency Consortium.
According to Salvamento sources, 112 and the Red Cross, it is about a six-year-old boy who went into cardiorespiratory arrest and who could be revived. Initially he was evacuated together with a pregnant woman to the Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital in Arrecife and throughout this morning they will urgently transfer him to Gran Canaria Four other people were evacuated to the Lanzarote hospital for minor pathologies, reports the Emergency Coordination Center and Security (Cecoes) 112 of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The Guardamar Polimnia rescued five boats and the Salvamar Al Nair another two, with this provisional count of occupants: 34, 25, 44, 57, 60, 51 and 38 people.
All of them have received the first medical assistance in the old Commercial Dock of Arrecife.
The last of the rescues, reports Europa Press, occurred around 9:47 a.m. this Friday and among the 50 migrants who were aboard the boat there were 25 men, 16 women –two pregnant women– and nine minors.
The salvamar Al Nahir is transferring all the migrants to the old Arrecife Commercial Dock, where it expects to arrive around 1:00 p.m.
In addition, yesterday 20 migrants arrived at the Cocoteros coast in a boat by their own means, in Guatiza (Teguise), who dispersed when they reached land. That group together with those rescued last morning and in the last hours (360) add up to around 380 people.