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Sunday, July 23, 2006
306 Immigrants Arrive in Just One Day
A total of 248 undocumented immigrants arrived in the Canary Islands in the 24 hours to Saturday evening, among them two who died in Tenerife. Four men had to be hospitalized, two are in intensive care in a grave condition.
Meanwhile hospital ship, Esperanza del Mar (the name of which, nothing ironically, translates as Hope of the Sea), put to sea to rescue another 58 people from a boat located 320 miles south of Gran Canaria.
In the first week of July, three corpses were on board a canoe which reached Los Cristianos. This was the first case of bodies actually being disembarked from a boat in Tenerife and was the signal for a larger than usual emergency service contingent to be scrambled in Los Cristianos. It is known that many would-be immigrants die in the attempt to reach the islands.
Dos muertos y 306 inmigrantes llegan al Archipiélago en un solo día
Immigrant boat arrives with three dead
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