A total of 295 immigrants have arrived in Lanzarote in just over 24 hours, according to data from the Coordinating Center for Emergencies and Security (CECOES) of the Canary Islands Government, which raises to nine the boats that have arrived on the island between the early hours of Wednesday and the early hours of Thursday.
During that period, the Lanzarote Emergency Consortium had reported the arrival of seven boats, but CECOES adds two more, one of them inflatable, which would have been intercepted at sea while other rescues were being carried out.
Thus, the number of immigrants also increases, since while the Consortium had a count of 246, the CEOES has counted 295. Among them, it indicates that there are 21 women, one of them pregnant, and 11 minors, one of whom was a baby. The Consortium, for its part, had reported the arrival of two babies and at least 22 minors in the first five boats alone.
After arriving on the island, the baby was transferred to the Molina Orosa Hospital together with his mother, to assess his condition, and two other men who needed medical assistance were also referred.
Adds an inflatable boat and another boat near Alegranza
The first two boats were rescued on Wednesday morning by Salvamar in the area near Roque del Este, north of Lanzarote. Once the people traveling on those boats were rescued, CECOES says that they received a notice of a third in the Alegranza area, which was not included in the Consortium's data. However, both sources point out that in total, a total of 73 Maghrebi people were rescued in that intervention.
On the afternoon of the same Wednesday, Maritime Rescue was alerted to the presence of a new boat on the coasts near Lanzarote, which was towed to the Arrecife Commercial Dock. 52 people of sub-Saharan origin were traveling on it.
On Wednesday night to Thursday, the Consortium reported two more boats, one north of the island and the other 15 miles northwest, but CECOES adds a third. According to explains, it was an inflatable boat that was traveling next to one of those two boats, adding 67 immigrants between the two. As for the other, he says that 49 people of sub-Saharan origin were traveling on board, also exceeding in this case the figure that the Consortium had provided.
The last two boats to arrive on the coasts of Lanzarote have done so on Thursday morning in the municipality of Haría, one in Charco del Palo and the other in the Jameos area.26 people were traveling in one and 28 in the other, coinciding in this case the data from the Consortium and CECOES.
