Wednesday and Thursday of good weather in the Alboran sea and, with it, the massive outflow of boats from Africa to Europe. A total of 1.159 people have been rescued alive by Salvamento Maritimo and the Guardia Civil from early Wednesday until late Thursday afternoon. The agents of rescue have also found four dead bodies on the high seas and have moved to port.
Wednesday ended with 592 migrants rescued 12 boats. A large majority of them, 426 were brought to the port of Malaga, in addition to one of the corpses. The rest of the survivors, Almeria and Motril, where they were transferred to the other three corpses. These three bodies were found in the high seas in a state of advanced decomposition, indicating that shipwrecked ago, days, or probably weeks.
Boats up to 20:15h, Alboran: SAR Mast moves 262 people 5 boats and C. Arenal 164 3 boats to Malaga. Spica rescues 54 people from patera, to Almería. Calíope to Motril with 84 people in 3 boats (2 per @guardiacivil ) and 3 dead bodies found this afternoon in the sea
— SEA RESCUE (@salvamentogob) November 28, 2018
The day of Thursday has begun with a backlog of work to Salvage. At noon I was in search of six boats in Alboran. Finally, the rescue services have rescued 592 migrants, of which 15 were minors, in 14 boats. Except for 66 individuals transferred to Motril and something more than 50 immigrants moved, according to sources at Rescue at Sea, Almeria, most of the people rescued from the bailouts of Thursday have been transported to the port of Malaga, where they have reached 471 people.
the arrival of almost 900 people to Malaga in just 24 hours, has led to the limit the infrastructure of the host of migrants in the city. Women and children arrived in the evening of Wednesday, remained in charge of the Red Cross, while that, of the men, 71 were conducted in the morning of Thursday, the Center of Temporary Care of Foreigners (CATE) in San Roque (Cadiz). 54 others spent the night in the boathouse port —an old empty restaurant where you will find mats on the floor for the migrants to rest— and 40 more were sent to the fair booth that the Government is using in the last few weeks as CATE to the Kaçak Bahis outskirts of the city of malaga. On the other hand, the situation nearly of a collapse forced the other 91 people to wait ten hours to finally be able to be transferred to San Roque, where they were placed in a few new modules that are installed in Pier 6 of the port. To the last hour of the Thursday, is yet to determine the fate of the 471 people landed in the port of malaga.
the migrants and boats rescued in the sea of Alboran, the responsibility of the centre for Maritime Rescue in Almeria, we have to add eight more migrants rescued off the coast of Águilas (Murcia) and 12 in Lanzarote. In this latter case, the patera with these immigrants arrived about one in the morning to the coast of the municipality of Haria, informs Pedro Murillo . The Guardia Civil has reported that the vessel also was carrying 50 kilos of hashish, which agents have been found to 300 meters from the place of arrival of the migrants. Of them, the services of the Red Cross has determined that six may be under age. All are in good condition.
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Motril account from just a week ago with some new facilities to cater to the migrants that arrive in your port and replace equipment tents this summer. The new facilities are prefabricated modules with capacity for 52 people, and, as specified in sub-delegation of the government in a press release, are provided with heating. These modules, installed by the Military Emergency Unit, will be used to not having to use the camp shops, though with a capacity for 250 people, has been flooded each time it rained, making it impossible to both the stay of migrants as well as the work of the policemen to his office.