More than 2,000 migrants arrive in the Canary Islands in four days on 26 boats. Reports published since Saturday night add up to 2,095 people aboard small boats and canoes. Only in the last few hours, seven canoes carrying 610 passengers arrived at El Hierro, prompting the government delegation to charter a ship to transport 500 of them to Tenerife. The last canoe docked a little after 16:30. with 53 people on board, following six other boats carrying 557 passengers.