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Six of the eight arrested fled swimming in the moment when the boat is intercepted

The six escapees swimming immigrants have been located by patrols of the Meritorious Citizen Security

The device has also been involved with a Maritime Rescue boat and its crew

The Civil Guard has intercepted Murcia, from yesterday afternoon at sea a boat with two immigrants, half a mile south of Cabo de Palos, and six other immigrants who had fled swimming in Calblanque, Honda Beach, Paradise Beach and Los Belones, municipality of Cartagena.

Yesterday afternoon, August 11, the Integrated External Surveillance Service of the Civil Guard detected Murcia, 20 nautical miles southeast off the coast of Cabo de Palos, a suspicious boat be a boat with immigrants, so that track began to verify the suspicions and, if necessary, activate the protocol provided for these cases in order to rescue the occupants of the land and move up safely.

Shortly after and after finding that it was a boat with illegal immigrants who had towards Cala Reona, the patrol of the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard was activated to locate it, which was stopped half a mile from the coast south of Cabo de Palos with several people inside the cabin and two in the bathtub.

At the time in which the naval unit of the Civil Guard intercepted the suspect vessel and the result of poor collaboration of its occupants, eight illegal immigrants were thrown into the sea with the intention of fleeing, making the crew of the patrol boat to intercept two they.

After a raid by a search area is set by land with public safety patrols, sea with boats of the Maritime Service of the Civil Guard and air and sea rescue helicopter Air Meritorious Service, in order to help immigrants in the water in order to prevent drowning, although they managed to land;

being located at one of the escapees on the beach of Calblanque, municipality of Cartagena.

Later, another citizen security patrol of the Civil Guard spotted two other immigrants fled the boat, one at a position near the access road to Calblanque area and another in Playa Honda.

Early this morning, several patrols Meritorious localizaban the remaining fugitive immigrants in Playa Paraiso, Playa Honda and Los Belones, the termination of the search appliance.

The device, which involved members of the Civil Guard in the region of Murcia and Salvage, has concluded with the interception of a vessel cabinada, five meters long and equipped with two engines of 50 to 5 horsepower and a dozen bottles used to transport fuel;

and the location of its eight occupants illegal immigrants, male, older and apparently of Algerian origin, in apparent good health.

Source: Ministerio del Interior