Overview
- Salvamento Marítimo escorted a cayuco carrying 198 people to La Restinga on El Hierro after detection by the Guardia Civil’s SIVE radar.
- The group included 18 young children and a baby, and two women were taken to hospital with symptoms of hypothermia and dehydration.
- Off Lanzarote, rescue crews aided two boats in separate operations the previous day, one with 50 people and another with about 53–54 on board.
- Survivors from the Lanzarote inflatable said they had run out of fuel before the Guardamar Polimnia transferred them to Arrecife after a fishing vessel’s alert.
- In the Balearics, authorities intercepted a patera with 15 people near Colònia de Sant Jordi in Mallorca on Saturday night, identified as of sub-Saharan origin.