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A child dies and perhaps thirty immigrants are missing when an inflatable boat sank near the Spanish Canary Islands (Atlantic), a spokesman for the Spanish Maritime Rescue Service
A child dies and perhaps thirty immigrants are missing when an inflatable boat sank near the Spanish Canary Islands (Atlantic), a spokesman for the Spanish Maritime Rescue Service said.
The vessel was discovered on Tuesday by a maritime rescue aircraft 150 kilometers south of the island of Gran Canaria. sixty passengers on board, According to this source, whose rescue was coordinated by Morocco.
The Rescue Coordination Center in Rabat informed the Maritime Rescue Service that the Moroccan patrol boat rescued alive 24 people who were on an inflatable boat, some of them are in the water.
For its part, a Spanish helicopter was dispatched from the Canary Islands. the body of a child was recovered from the shipwreck area, which was transported to the airport of Gran Canaria.
The pneumatics were discovered by a Spanish aircraft at 19:53 GMT on Tuesday, after a phone call for help, a search began for the device, which included request for help to any merchant ship for navigating the area.
One of them, Navios Azure, is a container ship from the Marshall Islands. He approached the pneumatics and stayed with her until she was shipwrecked.the circumstances of which are currently unknown.
In search of this pneumatic, the Spanish aircraft found another similar boat in a nearby location, whose rescue was undertaken by Salvamento Maritimo.
The ship of this Spanish enterprise saved 63 people who were on this zodiac and the rescue of another boat. this was left to the discretion of the Moroccan authorities, because the merchant was already at his side.
The Caminando Fronteras team assured that this zodiac party of sixty, including six women and one minorr, off Cape Bojador, on the Atlantic coast of North Africa.
Helena Maleno, spokeswoman for the group, who warned of the departure of this zodiac from Cape Bojador and stated her position, via Twitter asked the Spanish authorities to intervene urgently, as she believes that “torture” that these people were held for twelve hours, “begging” for help that had not yet arrived.
Speaking with EFESpanish activist condemned that the sea area of the shipwreck It is part of the rescue zone under the responsibility of Spain. under international law, although Morocco claims ownership of the waters of Western Sahara.
According to the press secretary, Spain committed “negligence” and “omission of duty to assist” because the rescue of this type of boat “cannot be delayed, as at any moment they go to the bottom, as happened with these pneumatics.”
It is torture when sixty people, including six women and a child, wait for more than twelve hours to be rescued in a flimsy inflatable boat that could sink at any moment. pic.twitter.com/8ej03RvFWz
— Helena Maleno Garzon (@HelenaMaleno) June 21, 2023
“Spain has become Greece, and so every day at the borders of Europe,” Maleno wrote on Twitter, alluding to the rejection of the functions that some NGOs attribute to Athens in sinking a week ago of a ship with more than 700 immigrants in the Ionian Sea, in which about eighty people diedabout a hundred were rescued alive, and hundreds are still missing.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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