Overview

• The vessel capsized when passengers surged to one side to board a Salvamar Maritime Rescue ship, causing it to overturn in shallow water.
• At least five migrants drowned and a baby is missing following the accident at La Restinga port.
• Spanish port emergency services, National Police, dock workers, diving clubs and the Red Cross are collaborating in the search-and-rescue operation.
• A Canary Islands Emergency Service (SUC) medical helicopter has airlifted critically wounded migrants to hospitals in Tenerife.
• The accident echoes a deadly capsizing eight months earlier off El Hierro and highlights the persistent hazards of the Atlantic crossing.