A cayuco with 210 migrants of sub-Saharan origin arrived this Monday at the port of Los Cristianos, in Tenerife, after traveling the Canary Islands route after leaving somewhere on the African coast. Two of the occupants died during the journey and a third died as soon as they arrived at port, all of them adults.
Many people on the boat have had to receive medical assistance and a dozen of the passengers have been transferred to health centers for different pathologies, according to official sources from the Emergency and Security Coordination Center.
The rescue operation began around seven in the morning, when the Civil Guard reported a suspicious echo about 17 kilometers from Punta Rasca. Immediately, Salvamento Marítimo mobilized the Guardamar 'Calíope', which sighted the barge and proceeded to escort it to the port of Los Cristianos.
According to the count carried out at the dock by the health services, there were a total of 210 people on the boat, of which 19 were women and 37 possible minors.
This is the third canoe to arrive on the Canary Islands today after one arrived with 95 people and another with 84. Of all of them, 25 were transferred to hospitals, three in serious condition.
If we count the last week, the number of migrants arriving in the archipelago rises to 683, of which seven have died and another 38 have had to be taken to health centers, nine of them with a serious prognosis.
It is estimated that, since the beginning of the year, some 23,000 people have arrived, most of them young Senegalese people who arrive in El Hierro in canoes.
Faced with this situation, the Ministry of Inclusion, Migration and Social Security announced last week the opening of 3,000 new places in the reception system with the aim of decongesting the reception system in the Canary Islands.
