A boat with 30 illegal immigrants from the west coast of Morroco onboard capsized in the surf near Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and a Uruguayan surfer named Christian Hunt was able to rescue six of them, according to a story in the Irish Times.
Mr Hunt said he ran into the surf from his beachside house after his wife saw that the boat had capsized. “When I got out there it was already a nightmare scenario. There were people floating off, the boat was overturned and several people were still holding on to it,” he said. “They would all have gone to the bottom if they hadn’t managed to grab the boat.” . . . While he threw himself into the water, his wife ran to get the surfboard, which he used to ferry the immigrants towards the beach. Mr Hunt said that on one of his journeys to the boat a 14-year-old boy told him to look for a smaller child first. “I hadn’t realised that he himself was so young,” he said.
Twenty-one others died in the accident and three others were still missing according to the story.
[Link: Irish Times]
