Ten of the 52 sub-Saharan immigrants rescued tonight twelve kilometers south of Gran Canaria by Salvamento Marítimo have been referred to hospitals due to their poor health, including

a minor in critical condition,

report sources from the emergency services.

Finally,

52 people

traveled in the boat

:

29 women (one of them pregnant), 14 adult men and nine children.

Six of the latter have been evacuated to the Maternal and Child Hospital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, one in critical condition and five more with moderate hypothermia, says 112 of the Canary Islands.

Four other adults have been referred to health centers: a woman with severe hypothermia and two men with moderate hypothermia to the Insular Hospital and a pregnant woman to the Maternal and Child Hospital.

The occupants of the boat have told the health workers, policemen and volunteers of the Red Cross who have treated them in the first instance that they

left Dakhla, in the south of the Sahara,

and that they had been in the sea.

His boat was detected this afternoon after 7:00 p.m. by the radar of the SIVE coastal surveillance system, when it was

about 15 kilometers south of Gran Canaria,

and was later located by a Maritime Rescue helicopter.

From the moment the rescue ship, the Salvamar Macondo, arrived at them, it became apparent that many of its occupants were in poor condition.

In fact, the Salvamento sailors

initially thought that one of them had passed away.

Upon arrival at port, most needed to be unloaded on a stretcher and a small child had to be resuscitated on the same floor of the dock, according to Efe.

A member of the emergency services has confirmed that it is the minor who was sent to the hospital in critical condition, because he had

severe hypothermia

upon arrival.

Among the minors, there are both

boys and girls and of various ages:

around one year, three, five and thirteen.

Among the nine children, there are

two brothers of thirteen and five years who assure that they travel alone,

without an adult to accompany them, because they say that their mother was taken up in another boat, the sources consulted have specified.

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