Overview
- Merchant vessel Teos reported a disabled cayuco about 232 nautical miles (429 km) south of Gran Canaria and secured it with a line before requesting assistance.
- Salvamento Marítimo deployed the guardamar Urania, which took 236 people aboard at about 02:15 local time and is sailing to Arguineguín for disembarkation and medical checks.
- The cayuco had no engine and was drifting in a Spain–Morocco joint SAR zone, and Spain coordinated the rescue after Morocco reported no vessels available.
- Separately, a patera with 16 people was brought to the Port of Alicante, where nine were hospitalized including two young girls, and about 15 arrivals were intercepted near Níjar, Almería.
- Rescue services continue searching for 12 people reported missing after jumping from a different patera on Friday.