59 migrants from Senegal rescued in the Canaries
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Senego
Fifty-nine migrants who departed from Saint-Louis, Senegal, were rescued south of El Hierro after five days at sea. The group included nine women and two minors, with no hospitalisation required on arrival, according to Spanish rescue services cited by Senego.
Fifty-nine migrants who had departed from Saint-Louis, Senegal, were rescued south of El Hierro in the Spanish Canary Islands on Monday evening, according to Senego. They had spent five days at sea aboard a cayuco, intercepted by the Salvamar Navia rescue vessel about two nautical miles from the island.
The group included nine women and two minors, as well as Senegalese and Gambian nationals. No passenger was hospitalised after arriving at the port of La Restinga, where the migrants received medical and humanitarian assistance. They were then due to be transferred to the temporary detention centre in San Andrés, in the municipality of Valverde.
The latest rescue follows the disembarkation of 59 migrants who departed from Senegal in El Hierro on 26 October. On 31 October, thirty migrants who departed from Senegal also disembarked on the island after six days at sea.
