The

Canary Islands

have received about

710 migrants

aboard a total of

22 boats and cayucos

since the early hours of last Friday, the last being an irregular boat that arrived at the Arguineguin Pier (Gran Canaria) on Saturday night with 18 people .

According to a count with data provided by the Red Cross and the Emergency and Security Coordination Center (Cecoes) 112, in the early morning and early hours of this Friday,

384 migrants arrived at different points on the islands

in 14 boats.

During the afternoon, Salvamento Marítimo intercepted three other boats with a total of

50 migrants

-15 in the first, another 15 in the second and 20 in the third- when they were heading to Gran Canaria.

In this sense, a boat from the state agency transferred all of them to the

Arguineguín

Pier

, being treated at the port, all in apparent good health.

Later, Salvamento also rescued a cayuco with

112 migrants of Maghreb origin

, including 35 minors, and took them to the

Los Cristianos Pier

, in Tenerife, all in good condition.

Around 8:00 p.m., another cayuco with more than

100 people was rescued in the area of ​​Punta Rasca

(Tenerife) and also transferred to Los Cristianos.

Meanwhile, at approximately the same time, although this time on the island of

Lanzarote

, about

40 migrants

arrived

who were intercepted in a small boat to the north of the island.

At the same time, an irregular boat arrived by its own means at Las Salinas Beach, on the

island of Fuerteventura

, with 6 people inside.

Finally, at dawn this Saturday, the aforementioned boats with 18 migrants arrived at the

Arguineguín Pier

, all in apparent good health.

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