Overview

• Multi‑agency teams from the Guardia Civil, Salvamento Marítimo and military air rescue are still searching for three people missing off Portopetro after a patera with about 24 aboard sank, leaving one dead and around 20 injured.
• Survivors and the NGO Caminando Fronteras say the craft drifted for days after running out of fuel before it went down near Mallorca.
• Arrivals to the islands have reached nearly 5,000 this year, with roughly 1,250–1,500 in the past three weeks, while many migrants continue onward by ferry to Barcelona, according to the Delegación del Gobierno.
• Balearic president Marga Prohens will seek a court suspension of the decree to redistribute 49 unaccompanied minors to the archipelago and plans to ask the EU to deploy Frontex; the central government’s delegate rejects claims of abandonment and says cooperation and resources have increased.
• Guardia Civil associations allege severe delays by Salvamento Marítimo in recent rescues, and nautical workers warn that abandoned pateras are creating navigational and environmental hazards along Mallorca’s protected southern coast.