A boat with 16 people of North African and sub-Saharan origin on board was intercepted on the Majorcan island of Cabrera, the eighth ship to reach the Balearic Islands in the past 24 hours with a total of 124 migrants on board.
This ship was intercepted on Saturday at 8:56 p.m. on the island of Cabrera, south of Mallorca, and everyone is in good health, as confirmed by the government delegation in the Balearic Islands.
This was the eighth ship recorded during the day on Saturday, with a total of 124 migrants of North African and sub-Saharan origin arriving on the south coast of Majorca, the island of Cabrera and Pitiusas.
The first boat was in Cabrera around 05:25 local time with 20 people on board, two hours later another rescue operation was carried out nearby with 17 people.
At 09:18 another rescue was recorded, this time on land, of five people between Cabo de Ses Salines and Caragol beach, and a few minutes later another 20 people were intercepted at the same spot.
A fifth boat, carrying 28 sub-Saharan migrants, was intercepted in front of the Cala Figuera lighthouse around 12:30 p.m. Apparently, the migrants had no health problems.
The sixth boat was found in Ibiza, where the Guardia Civil and local police proceeded to rescue 11 people of North African descent around 1 p.m.
A seventh boat with seven migrants, two of them minors, was on the island of Formentera. The officers intercepted five people at kilometer 8 of the La Mola road around 12:15 p.m. after receiving a report from a neighbor.
A few hours later, around 3:32 p.m., they found two more people in the port of Formentera. Apparently they were all from the same boat that was adrift.
According to EFE’s count, 48 small boats with 830 people on board have reached that coastal area since the beginning of the year.
In 2022, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, 174 irregular vessels with 2,579 occupants were discovered off the coast of the Balearic Islands.
Source: DN
