Rescue services recovered a body at 11:50 a.m. this Saturday that was spotted floating one mile off the coast of the Island of Lanzarote, reports the Coordinating Center for Emergencies and Security (Cecoes) of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The event took place at Papagayo Beach (Yaiza), after a person on a boat reported that they had spotted the body of a person floating in the sea.
A boat from the Emergency and Rescue Group (GES), which departed from Puerto del Carmen, in Tías, and a second from the Red Cross of the Sea, which departed from Playa Blanca and was the first to arrive, recovered the body and transferred it to the dock.
According to sources close to the case, the body found in the sea is that of a Moroccan man around 50 years old, who worked as a waiter in Puerto del Carmen. The hypothesis is that he could have fallen into the water in this town of Tías and that the current dragged his body to the Papagayo area, in the south of the island.
