• Editorial: An alarming migration crisis

  • Canary Islands: The migration crisis in the Canary Islands reaches as far as the island of El Hierro

The story of a twelve-year-old girl from Guinea Conakry

has left the members of the emergency services

who attend to the last of the boats arriving in the south of Gran Canaria

frozen

: her nine-year-old brother died only a few hours before, while they were lost in the Atlantic, and his fellow voyagers threw his body into the sea.

The Guardamar Talía, from Salvamento Marítimo, has returned tonight to the port of Arguineguín with an unusual dinghy, made up mostly of women:

21 of its 34 occupants are, including a girl and a young

pregnant woman.

The sub-Saharan occupants of the gondola claim that they had been

at sea for about five days

when a rescue plane found them, about 100 miles south of the land they are now on.

His state of exhaustion, dizziness, dehydration and weakness proves it.

Most could barely walk without assistance when they got off the dock.

Several have been taken from the ship on a stretcher and two have gone directly to the hospital.

While the emergency services continued their work on the dock, one of the oldest members has told Efe the scene of the dinghy

while the mother of the minor who died

due to an anxiety crisis

was being treated

.

Your daughter has had the courage to tell Red Cross volunteers and health workers a terrible story.

Her nine-year-old brother died in the middle of the ocean on Wednesday.

After he died, his body was thrown into the sea.

The Red Cross has preferred not to delve further into the story of the girl, who speaks but is also in a state of

shock

.

In the next few hours an attempt will be made to find out what happened in the boat

and what participation the rest of the occupants of the boat had in the events reported by the girl.

Along with the little girl, two other minors have arrived in the same boat, two boys between eight and nine years old.

Also a pregnant woman, in a delicate situation.

She immediately left in an ambulance for the Maternal and Child Hospital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

More than 23,000 people arrived last year in patera or cayuco to the Canary Islands

and at least 600 left their lives on the way

, according to the minimum calculation made by the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations and that several NGOs directly involved in the assistance to immigrants, such as the Red Cross or Walking Borders, rise above 1,000 victims.

Only in the first 15 days of 2021, seven immigrants appeared to have died on the coasts of the Canary Islands.

The boy who his classmates threw overboard 24 hours ago now

brings the count to eight.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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