A boat with 51 people on board that was traveling to Lanzarote has disappeared

Family members and friends report that they know nothing about the occupants of the boat that left Agadir ten days ago and should have arrived on June 13

June 20 2023 (16:48 WEST)
Updated in June 20 2023 (20:22 WEST)
A wooden boat, located between Punta Mujeres and Arrieta, in an image from the archive
A wooden boat, located between Punta Mujeres and Arrieta, in an image from the archive

Several relatives report the disappearance of a wooden boat that left southern Morocco almost ten days ago to Lanzarote. The island is the main recipient of precarious boats that leave from the cities of Agadir and Tan Tan to the Canary Islands. According to La Voz, this boat should have arrived on June 13, but never reached the Archipelago.

This wooden boat sailed with between 51 and 53 people from the coastal city of Agadir last Sunday, June 11 at 5 am. Since then, family members and friends based in Spain or Morocco have been trying to locate its occupants without success.

The Caminando Fronteras collective assures that it has already contacted the Spanish and Moroccan authorities to inform them of the disappearance of the fifty people. The relatives have done the same. Meanwhile, several sorties have been made in the Maritime Rescue plane to try to intercept it, without success.

"That area is hyper dangerous because it is the Atlantic and if you lose the reference it can be a tragedy. We know that the alerts are still activated, but not the means that have been put in place," says Caminando Fronteras spokeswoman Helena Maleno.

According to this same group, during 2022, up to 1,784 people died or disappeared in the Atlantic.

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