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Spain rescues more than 100 migrants from sea

Spanish rescue services said they had picked up more than 100 African migrants from boats in the Atlantic and Mediterranean sea on Saturday, incidents that have become increasingly rare.

Off the Canary island of Tenerife 26 migrants were rescued, some of them apparently after two weeks at sea, the Red Cross told AFP.

„Various circumstances, like the situation in the Sahel region and Arab countries as well as the fight against (clandestine) immigration to Spain across the Atlantic, have changed the flow of refugees these past months and years,“ the police chief of Spain’s North African enclave Melilla, Abdelmalik El Barkani, said earlier this year.

On Saturday, 47 migrants travelling on three boats were also rescued from the Mediterranean and taken to the town of Almeria in southern Spain. Thirty-nine others were transferred to Ceuta, also on the north African coast.

In a week Spanish rescuers have assisted several hundred migrants, after 3,804 would-be immigrants reached the Spanish coast last year, according to interior ministry figures.

The Canary islands, off the northwest coast of Africa, counted 31,678 arrivals of clandestine migrants in 2006, the highest number ever.

via Spain rescues more than 100 migrants from sea – FRANCE 24

Salvamento Marítimo rescata a 17 inmigrantes a bordo de dos pateras

Personal de Salvamento Marítimo rescató ayer a un total de 17 inmigrantes de origen subsahariano e dos operativos. El más numeroso tuvo lugar por la tarde, cuando auxiliaron a una decena de personas que viajaban a bordo de una patera localizada a unas diez millas al suroeste de Tarifa, uno de las cuales tuvo que ser evacuado en helicóptero tras haber caído al mar.

Mientras la embarcación ‚Salvamar Alkaid‘ llevaba a los nueves inmigrantes rescatados hasta el puerto, donde los esperaba un dispositivo de Cruz Roja, el helicóptero Helimer 211 y la ‚Salvamar Calíope‘ localizaron y rescataron al ocupante que cayó al agua, que fue trasladado al aeropuerto de Jerez.

Por la mañana Salvamento Marítimo rescató a otros siete inmigrantes de origen subsahariano.

via Salvamento Marítimo rescata a 17 inmigrantes a bordo de dos pateras. SUR.es

nzz 13.08.2013

„Ein grosser Zustrom afrikanischer Einwanderer in Südspanien hat die Aufnahmelager der Hafenstadt Algeciras an die Grenzen ihrer Kapazität gebracht. Allein am Montag brachten die Rettungsdienste 59 Afrikaner an Land, die mit neun Gummibooten von Nordafrika aus die Meerenge von Gibraltar überquert hatten. Seit Samstag wurden nach Angaben der Behörden fast 200 Afrikaner vor der südspanischen Küste gerettet. […]“