Three of them were detected by the Integrated External Surveillance System, or SIVE and intercepted near Cabrera.
The Guardia Civil and Maritime Rescue were mobilised along with the Salvamar Acrux boat from Puerto Portals. 40 men were rescued and transferred to Palma port for processing.
A merchant ship spotted the fourth boat around 50 miles south of Portocolom and the Guardia Civil and Maritime Rescue were mobilised along with the Illes Pitiüses boat from Portocolom at around 03:00. 11 men were rescued and also transferred to Palma for processing.
16 migrants have also been detained in Playa d'en Bossa, in Ibiza, but their boats have not yet been located.
So far this year, 80 boats have arrived in the Balearic Islands, with nearly a thousand migrants onboard.
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Dule, there doesn't have to be really. As unlike some readers of the MDB think that we can't have them here in this time of crisis; all migrant arriving on Mallorca are transferred to a migrants facility in Valencia. Unless they have Covid, then they are quarantined till negative and then transferred to Valencia.
Is there any strategic plan for all these newcomers, or is the government to occupied by chasing after the people without the masks?
Reading this and seeing the photos of this little boats, it always makes me wonder how many didn't make it. I certainly would not have the balls to make such a journey in such a piece of junk.