The organization Caminando Fronteras stated that there are three active alerts in November for the disappearance of a 25-person skiff that sailed from Algeria 20 days ago, and two other boats bound for the Peninsula or the Balearic Islands.
On Thursday, five migrants were rescued about 60 miles south of Ibiza, police sources confirmed. Survivors warned that some 15 more people were reportedly adrift, a number that some sources put at 18 missing.
The five migrants, transferred last night to the port of Ibiza, are in police custody. Some of them remain in the Can Misses Hospital, while the rest have been transferred to the Ibiza Police Station, where they will receive humanitarian assistance from the Red Cross when their condition permits.
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18 migrants disappear from skiff after days adrift
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Eight days adrift on a failed crossing
According to his testimony, the boat had departed eight days ago from North Africa in an attempt to reach the Spanish coast. The crossing became complicated and drifted in the open sea until, after a first unsuccessful attempt on Thursday, Salvamento Marítimo was able to locate the marked area. Finally, it was a Frontex plane based in Alicante that sighted the skiff, which allowed the rescue of the five survivors.
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Spain alerts and Algeria rescues a drifting patera that had been adrift for days
