A dinghy with 16 immigrants on board has been intercepted this Saturday in waters near the port of Alicante, where they are being treated by the Red Cross.
The interception was carried out around 7:30 a.m. at about 600 meters from the port of the Alicante capital by a Civil Guard patrol boat, a Maritime Rescue boat and the port guards, sources familiar with the intervention have informed Efe. .
The occupants of the patera are men and of Algerian origin, in principle they are in good health and seven of them have claimed to be minors, Red Cross sources have told Efe, who have not been able to provide more information at the moment. waiting for the end of assistance to immigrants at the point enabled for these cases in the port of Alicante.
At dawn on September 1, a Maritime Rescue helicopter rescued eight people from a boat, seven men and one woman, all of them of legal age and of Algerian origin, who were on an islet located near the Lighthouse. del Albir, in Alfaz del Pi (Alicante).
On the other hand, and according to data provided by the Red Cross, this entity treated 75 immigrants last August, three of them minors, who arrived in eight boats to the province of Alicante.
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