Maritime Rescue has rescued a boat with 82 immigrants in waters near the island of The iron late this Tuesday, as reported by the Emergency and Security Coordination Center of 112 of the Canary Islands and the Red Cross.
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After being rescued, the migrants have been transferred to the port of La Estaca, in the municipality of Valverde, where the rescued people have been assisted by members of the health system in the area, who had to transfer two immigrants to the hospital for pathologies of diverse consideration.
This is the second boat that has arrived on the island of El Hierro in the last few hours, arriving about 205 migrants since the beginning of the week. In fact, Maritime Rescue had been looking for this boat since Monday, after learning that it had left with the canoe that arrived Monday from Senegal. The first boat was occupied by 79 men and 3 women.