US EditionMediterranean Rescuers Find 3 Sudanese Sisters Dead on an Overcrowded Migrant Boat
Salvage Maritime rescued 236 sub-Saharan migrants, including 10 minors and 17 women, attempting to reach the Canary Islands from Senegal, officials said.
- On Sunday, Salvage Maritime rescued 236 people from a cayuco sighted about 429 kilometers south of Gran Canaria, after the merchant ship Teos reported it.
- This rescue is the first on the Canary route since August 12, when two boats with 67 people were assisted; those aboard were reported as sub‑Saharan migrants who departed from Senegal, including 10 minors, two babies, and 17 women.
- Merchant ship Teos reported a canoe with numerous people to the National Maritime Rescue Center , which mobilized Guardamar Urania and reported the rescue at 12.15 GMT.
- Spanish Maritime Rescue said 248 people, including two babies and several young children, disembarked at Arguineguín dock and underwent initial medical assessment by medical personnel.
- The broader Mediterranean route has claimed more than 30,000 lives since 2014; volunteers with RESQSHIP found bodies after rescuing some 65 people north of Libya Friday.
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Three young sisters drown, dozens rescued from boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy
Three young sisters drowned when the rubber boat carrying them and dozens of other migrants got into difficulties on the perilous central Mediterranean crossing from Libya to Italy, a German sea rescue charity said on Sunday.
Spain Rescues Almost 250 Migrants of a Boat 429 Kilometers From Gran Canaria - teleSUR English
Spanish Maritime Rescue has rescued 248 people, including two babies and several young children, early this Sunday morning. They were aboard a large canoe (cayuco) spotted by a merchant ship about 429 kilometers south of Gran Canaria. RELATED: Three Sudanese Sisters Die in Mediterranean Crossing Amid Mounting Migration Crisis According to the NGO Caminando Fronteras, which alerted authorities about the departure of this canoe, based on data from…
Mediterranean Rescues Find 3 Sudanese Sisters Dead on an Overcrowded Migrant Boat
Three young sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy, a German nonprofit organization reported Sunday. The sisters from war-torn Sudan, who were 9, 11 and 17 years old, are the latest known victims of a Mediterranean migration route that has claimed more than 30,000 lives since the International Organization for Migration started counting in 2014, The A…
According to state society, they are all of sub-Saharan origin, and there are both men, women and minors, although it will be the ground count that gives more details about the exact number
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