The Diplomat
A total of 14 boats arrived in the Canary Islands with 908 people on board between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, according to data provided by the 112 Emergency and Security Coordinating Center of the archipelago.
During the afternoon and evening of October 12, 473 people were located in ten boats. Two of those boats managed to reach land under their own power—one to Arrecife (Lanzarote) with 54 people and another to Antigua (Fuerteventura) with 58 migrants.
During the morning of Friday, Maritime Rescue intercepted four boats with 435 migrants, of which 60 were transferred to the marina of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, while another 80 to Arguineguín, in the municipality of Mogán (Gran Canaria).
Another 217 people were transferred to the port of Los Cristianos, in Arona (Tenerife), and 78 to the port of La Restinga, in El Pinar (El Hierro).
In the early hours of last Wednesday, another 812 migrants arrived on the Canary Islands coasts aboard 11 boats, with which,. In just over two days, the total number of migrants arriving on the islands rose to 1,720.
An average of 503 people have arrived on the islands every day since the month began, unprecedented numbers since the cayucos crisis of 2006.
In addition to the Canary Islands, in the last few hours, there have been numerous arrivals to the Balearic Islands, Almería, the Valencian Community and Murcia, mainly during this early morning.
One of the largest took place in Murcia, where the Civil Guard and Maritime Rescue intercepted since Thursday afternoon a total of 15 boats with 184 immigrants on board, including 162 adult men, seven women and 15 minors, all of Algerian nationality.
