Overview
- Salvamento Marítimo's Guardamar Urania found the 20‑meter wooden boat adrift on August 24 and brought 248 people to Arguineguín, with one man later dying in hospital.
- A judge has remanded 19 suspects—17 Senegalese and two Gambians—on accusations of facilitating irregular immigration, homicide, injuries and torture.
- Police estimate the cayuco departed with roughly 300 people and that at least 50 died or disappeared during the crossing.
- Survivors report beatings, torture, people thrown alive into the sea and refusals to help those who fell overboard, with some victims labeled “brujos.”
- The inquiry is led by the Las Palmas border brigade and the national immigration directorate under Operation Tritón/UCRIF Central.