Tenerife (Spain), 12 Feb. Six people died aboard an inflatable boat located this midnight south of the Canary Island of Tenerife in the nine days they were lost at sea, according to what its 23 survivors told the Red Cross in their arrival at the port of Los Cristianos with the lifeboat,
The inflatable was rescued around midnight in an emergency operation involving a helicopter and two Spanish maritime rescue boats, the Salvamar Alpheratz, based in Tenerife, and the Salvamar Alborán, normally stationed in La Gomera, which eventually led its occupants ashore.
When help arrived, some 37 kilometers southwest of the island of Tenerife, there were 23 people aboard the zódiac “in very poor condition”: 14 adult men, five women and four minors, all of them sub-Saharan origin.
“At the moment we don’t have a lot of information, they report that six people died during the trip… Nine days of travel in total, that’s what they told us,” said the spokesperson for the Red Cross team who accompanied them this morning. , Lourdes Hernandez.
According to information handled by Caminando Fronteras, the tires had left the southern Sahara with 29 people, from a point on the coast north of the city of Dakhla.
Four men and two women died during the trip, whose bodies were thrown into the sea, according to this NGO, which was able to speak by telephone with the occupants of the zódiac and transferred their call for help to the authorities. EFE
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