Ten Algerian men who were attempting to enter illegally into Spain have been brought into the port of Garrucha by lifeboat. A search operation was mounted for another immigrant after the survivors told the authorities that he had fallen overboard some hours before their rescue and that the man could not swim and was not wearing a life jacket. Salvamento Maritimo, a helicopter, a Polish frigate and a Spanish navy frigate, the Almirante Juan de Borbon all joined in the search in the area where the immigrants’ boat was assumed to have been at the time but it was called off after several hours without success. The survivors were rescued after their boat upturned and they were spotted, some 45 miles north east of the Cabo de Gata, clinging to the drifting hull by a merchant ship which notified the Spanish authorities. They were taken aboard a Spanish coastguard ship and transferred to port by the Garrucha lifeboat ‘Salvamar Algenib’.
The survivors , who were attended to by a Red Cross immediate emergency response team (ERIE), were all in good health and were given dry clothing, shoes, blankets, food and water before being taken into custody by the Guardia Civil.
Another Red Cross ERIE team was called out the same day to attend to another eight immigrants in the Guardia Civil station in Cuevas del Almanzora.
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