At least 197 migrants arrived to the Spanish provinces of Murcia, Cadiz Canary Island and Alicante carried by seven boats during the first weekend of 2020. According to Europa Press, the first group of migrants was rescued, Saturday, near Cadiz. At least 18 people, including a child and a woman, of North African origins, were rescued. During the same day, Salvamento Maritimo intercepted a boat carrying 16 men who were all of Algerian descent off the Santa Pola beach in Alicante. One of the migrants had to be transferred to the Alicante General Hospital. In Cartagena, three boats were intercepted by the Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima also known as SASEMAR. They are 36 Algerian migrants, including two women and a minor. They were all assisted by the Red Cross, the news agency said. On Sunday, emergency health services rescued and treated 10 migrants - nine men (including a minor) and a woman - who were carried by a boat intercepted in Cabo de Palos, in Murcia. Likewise, Salvamento Maritimo located the same day, near the coast of Gran Tarajal (Fuerteventura), an inflatable boat with about 44 sub-Saharan migrants, including five young children. Salvamento Maritimo also reported the rescue of 59 migrants who were carried by a boat near Gran Canaria. As reported by the Red Cross, a migrant traveling in this boat has died. It was the first death recorded in 2020 of a person trying to reach the Canary coast. In Alicante, a boat with about 14 people was intercepted on Sunday along the city's coast, as reported by Red Cross sources. These 197 migrants are added to the 150 migrants who arrived this Friday, January 3, via fifteen ships in the waters of the Canary Islands, Andalusia, Murcia and Alicante, concludes Europa Press.
