A Cayuco with dozens of people on board has overturned, when he was approaching the dock to disembark their occupants, sources of maritime rescue and the Red Cross have informed Efe. Two women have died in the accident and a girl is in serious condition, according to the 112 Emergency Service of the Canary Islands.
The boat had more than a hundred people on board, according to the first estimates, including minors, and many have fallen into the sea. The emergency services of the port are occupying the people in the water. Also in rescue work workers of the dock and diving clubs.
This is the first Cayuco that arrives on the island after almost two weeks of break on the Atlantic route and one day after the visit of a group of Eurodiputados who warned of a tense calm in the archipelago and that the migration to El Hierro was going to continue in the coming months.
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