Lanzarote has received 3,914 migrants from the African continent so far this year. This has been reported by provisional data from the Red Cross, the NGO that provides initial care to these people upon their arrival on the island.
The data is the only data that can be known because the Ministry of the Interior does not reveal the figures by islands. In this case, the month with the highest number of arrivals to date was June, with 1,078 lives rescued at sea. That same month was the one in which the most minors needed attention, with 177 arrivals of boys and girls.
However, during July there were no arrivals of precarious boats to the island of Lanzarote. During that period, the migratory route to the Canary Islands shifted towards Tenerife or El Hierro.
The accumulated data to date indicate that 88 boats have arrived on the coasts of Lanzarote so far in 2023. Among them, men, 2,977, continue to be the protagonists of the journey. Meanwhile, the Red Cross has reported 337 women rescued until the end of August and a total of 553 minors.
In this sense, the organization assures that only two deaths have been registered. However, to this must be added all the people who died on the way and whose bodies ended up in the sea. The Canary route is one of the deadliest in the world.