Overview
- Salvamento Marítimo said about 133 people were saved in two incidents in Canary waters over the past hours.
- The guardamar Urania intercepted a cayuco with 108 people, including 20 women and three minors, at 00:55 Canary time roughly 148 miles southeast of El Hierro.
- One person was found dead on that vessel and another who was in serious condition later died, according to the authorities.
- A separate boat about four miles south of Gran Canaria was escorted to Arguineguín, where emergency teams reported generally good condition and made one minor hospital transfer.
- Officials thanked the merchant ships SARAH M and bulk carrier EUROSTAR for assisting the cayuco, and separate rescues recovered 26 people near southeast Mallorca and 13 near Formentera.