One person dies and three go missing in a boat sinking near Mallorca.
Another man has been seriously injured and three others are reported missing at sea.
PalmA man died and another 30-year-old was seriously injured in the capsizing of a boat carrying 20 migrants. The incident occurred this Wednesday in the waters of Mallorca.
The alert was issued after a private boat rescued a man in the water this morning and transported him to Portopetro, where he was treated by medical services. The man explained that he was traveling with 23 other people aboard a boat when, before reaching land, they capsized and had been adrift for six days.
Emergency services activated the emergency rescue of the sunken boat at 3:30 p.m. 061 subsequently treated a total of 20 people rescued by Maritime Rescue. According to witnesses of the shipwreck victims, three other people are believed to have disappeared after abandoning the boat and attempting to swim to land. They have now been taken into custody by the National Police.
Prohens calls for "fighting the mafias"
Prime Minister Marga Prohens has called for a "combat against the mafias with all means" following the news of a boat capsizing, resulting in one death and three missing people, among others injured.
"It's very hard to read this episode. This is the humanitarian tragedy of illegal immigration reaching our islands," she wrote in a message posted on her account on the social network X. The regional president considered that migrants "cannot be allowed to continue risking their lives at sea." "We must use all means to combat the mafias that play on their desperation and act in their countries of origin and transit," she emphasized.
Migration policy, Prohens continued, "cannot be limited to creating spaces for those who arrive," referring to the opening of port infrastructure by the Spanish government to care for migrants before they are sent to the Peninsula. "We cannot continue looking the other way," the president of the regional government declared.