Thirty-one North African tourists making their own way to Spain are now staying in the hospitality suite of the National Police in Almería after having had their free medical, courtesy of the Red Cross. All male, and possibly with minors amongst them, they were met by a Guardia Civil ‘welcome’ boat near the island of Alborán and enjoyed an aerial …
Boat capsizes on start of journey to Spain
Helicopters are being used to search for survivors from a boat which capsized shortly after starting out on its journey from Morocco to Spain. The boat, carrying around 50 passengers, set of from Kenitra in Morocco, but apparently capsized about thrity minutes into the 250 km journey. One body has been found washed up on a beach in Kenitra and …
More boat people
The Guardia Civil and Marine Rescue intercepted two boats carrying a total of 48 passengers on board, five of them minors. One boat was spotted near Caños de Meca, Cádiz province, and contained 38 Moroccans and 2 Algerians and including 5 minors. The second boat was spotted 48 miles southeast of Cabo de Gata, Almería, with 8 North Africans on …
Illegal immigrants intercepted off Cabo de Gata
The Guardia Civil has intercepted a small boat carrying 10 North African tourists, all of whom had inadvertently forgotten or misplaced all their necessary paperwork. The boat was spotted at around 22:30 last night about eleven miles off Cabo de Gata in Almería and was then intercepted by a vessel from the Maritime Rescue Service. The passengers were transferred to …
Illegals arrive in Tenerife
A cayuco with 229 illegal immigrants on board has been towed into the port of Los Cristianos on the island of Tenerife. The boat was first spotted by an Air Service Rescue (SAR) plane about 55 miles off Gran Canaria and was later intercepted by the Maritime Rescue boat ‘Maria Zambrano’ which towed the craft to port. All on board …
Another 164 illegal immigrants intercepted
A busy weekend on the illegal immigration front in the Canary Islands this weekend, another 164 being spotted and intercepted last night. A cayuco with 164 passengers on board was spotted about 170 miles south of Gran Canaria. The occupants were transferred to the Maritime Rescue vessel ‘Conde de Gondomar’ and were taken to the port of Arguineguín on the south-west …
32 illegal immigrants intercepted near Lanzarote
Guardia Civil and Maritime Rescue officers have this morning intercepted a small boat carrying 32 illegal immigrants, including a woman and her baby, near the island of Lanzarote. The boat was spotted by a fishing vessel about three miles from Teguise, on the northeastern coast, and was then intercepted by the authorities and towed to the port of Arrecife. All …
Several boats carrying illegal immigrants intercepted
Six Moroccans were intercepted in the early hours of this morning as they paddled a toy boat towards Punta Acebuche. Despite being in a toy boat and having paddled all the way from Morocco, the six were said to be in good health.
Five illegal immigrants intercepted off Málaga coast
Five North African immigrants, one of them a minor, were intercepted about a mile from the Málaga coast and taken to Málaga port. Two of the passengers were treated by the Red Cross for dehydration while two more were transferred to the Carlos Haya hospital suffering from burns, dehydration and hyperthermia. It is not yet known whether there were other people …
61 illegal immigrants arrive in Gran Canaria
A small boat carrying 61 illegal immigrants, including 15 children, arrived in the port of Arguineguín, Mogán province, on the island of Gran Canaria at around midnight on Saturday. Guardia Civil and Red Cross officials were on hand to bid them a cordial welcome.