The number of boats arriving in the Canary Islands has increased during March, and last night one was intercepted twelve kilometres south of Gran Canaria by Maritime Rescue who have confirmed that there were 52 people, all sub-Saharans on board the boat, 29 women (one of them pregnant), 14 adult men and nine children.
On arrival at the port in Arguineguin, most needed to be unloaded on stretchers and a small child had to be resuscitated by paramedics, who saved her life, on the dock floor because she was in cardiac arrest on arrival according to emergency services.
