Overview

• Salvamento Marítimo recovered 50 people nearly 100 km off Lanzarote after the fishing vessel Santuario Barquereño reported an adrift inflatable boat.
• Survivors told rescuers they had run out of fuel, and the Guardamar Polimnia took them to Arrecife on Lanzarote.
• A separate group of 54 people, including four women, was rescued later the same day in waters near Lanzarote, according to local emergency officials.
• In the Balearics, authorities intercepted a patera with 15 people of Sub-Saharan origin about 4 miles off Colònia de Sant Jordi, Mallorca, on Saturday night.
• Year to date, 295 small boats carrying 5,480 migrants have reached Balearic coasts, based on government delegation data compiled by EFE.