More than 1,000 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands this Saturday, including a canoe with 320 people, a historical record

LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA, Oct. 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Canary Islands registered during the day this Saturday the arrival of more than 1,000 irregular migrants aboard some seven precarious boats, among them a cayuco with 320 people arrived in El Hierro, which represents a historical record as it is the largest of which There is evidence, according to data from 112 Canarias and Maritime Rescue compiled by Europa Press.

This figure exceeds the 271 migrants who arrived at the La Restinga Pier on October 3, a cayuco that until yesterday was the one that transported the most people to the islands since the ‘Canary route’ was opened in 1994.

Late this Friday afternoon, the Las Palmas Maritime Rescue Center received a notice from a boat about 55 miles southeast of Maspalomas (Gran Canaria), sending the Macondo rescue boat to the area, which rescued 32 sub-Saharans. who were on board (20 men, eleven women and one child) who were disembarked around midnight at the Arguineguín Dock.

Already in the early hours of Saturday, the Maritime Rescue Center in Tenerife mobilized the Adhara rescuer after the sighting of a canoe, escorting it to the port of La Restinga, where about 160 sub-Saharans (144 men and women) disembarked by their own means at around 5:00 a.m. 16 women).

During the morning of yesterday, Maritime Rescue and the Civil Guard intercepted two new canoes in the waters of El Hierro and Tenerife.

On the first irregular boat there were 121 people who were transported to the La Restinga Dock (El Hierro).

Meanwhile, the second canoe was intercepted in the waters of Tenerife with 98 migrants who were transferred to the Los Cristianos Pier.

Already during the afternoon, Maritime Rescue rescued 121 migrants who were assisted at the Arguineguín dock after being intercepted in a canoe south of Gran Canaria.

In addition, another 532 migrants have also been assisted by health workers after being located in two cayucos in El Hierro. One of them transported 320 people, which is the largest in the Canary Islands since records began.