A deceased person and six people, including a pregnant woman, have been evacuated to hospitals in Gran Canaria after the rescue of 177 migrants - 38 of them minors - from a cayuco spotted by a French warship 185.2 kilometers off the Saharawi coast of Dajla, the former Villa Cisneros, occupied by Morocco.
This is the assessment that the emergency services have offered this Tuesday of this device, which culminated at 8:40 p.m. this Monday at the Arguineguín pier, south of Gran Canaria.
There, the members of this expedition who did not need to be evacuated previously to health centers on the island were disembarked, as was the case of the person seriously injured, who was transferred in the Helimer 202 helicopter to the airport and, from there, to one of them in an ambulance, as confirmed to EFE by Maritime Rescue.
The crew of the Guardamar Polimnia patrol boat, activated at 6:50 p.m. on Sunday, when the notice of this sighting was received by the French ship 'Beautemps-Beaupré', was in charge of assisting these people, all of sub-Saharan origin.
At the request of Maritime Rescue, the French ship remained in the area until the arrival of its patrol boat, which took about eleven hours to reach the cayuco, as it was about 290 kilometers south of Gran Canaria.
The crew of the Guardamar Polimnia boarded the migrants and transferred them to the Arguineguín pier, from where another five, two women, one of them pregnant, and three men with dehydration and hypothermia, were evacuated to the Materno Infantil, Doctor Negrín and Insular hospitals, respectively.
