Two of the soldiers wounded in Cape Verde transported to Lisbon
According to Lusa the spokesman of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGFA), Pedro Serafim, of the seven soldiers, three were discharged from Hospital do Mindelo, in São Vicente, two are still in the same hospital and two others are being transported to Lisbon, due to arrive this evening.
Both the two interned soldiers and the two who are returning to Lisbon “have a stable state of health and are considered not to be in danger of life”.
Seven Portuguese navy soldiers suffered a car accident on Saturday on the Cape Verdean island of Santo Antão, during a leisure visit, and were transported to the Porto Novo Health Center.
A source from the Santo Antão regional command of the National Police told Lusa on Saturday that the seven sailors arrived on the neighboring island of São Vicente on October 28, as part of a cooperation program with the Cape Verdean Coast Guard, a board member. D. Carlos I hydro-oceanographic vessel, of the Portuguese Navy.
“On Friday they traveled here to Porto Novo and today they were heading to a tourist site called Tarrafal de Monte Trigo. Along the way, on the road, there was an accident. , lost control and the vehicle ended up overturning, “reported the source.
The hydro-oceanographic vessel D. Carlos I arrived in Mindelo, in São Vicente, on October 28, to carry out an oceanographic and microplastics control campaign off the Cape Verde archipelago.
The ship left the Lisbon Naval Base on October 18, 2021, as part of the National Force Detached for a mission “Open Sea Initiative 2021.2”, which runs until January 15, 2022.
In Cape Verde, a mission of the Portuguese Navy ship, which provides for bilateral and multilateral cooperation actions, presence and naval diplomacy, “contributing to maritime security in the area of operations corresponding to the geographic space of the Gulf of Guinea”, contemplated stopovers at the port of Praia, this weekend, where the visit of the minister of National Defense, João Gomes Cravinho, who was in the Cape Verdean capital, will go.
The Detached National Force is found by the Ship of the Portuguese Republic (NRP) D. Carlos I, with 51 soldiers on board, including a team of fusers and a reinforced security team. During the mission, multidisciplinary teams of scientists from the Hydrographic Institute are expected to embark in Angola and in the Cape Verde archipelago.
The “Mar Aberto Initiative 2021.2” aims to “contribute to maritime situational knowledge, scientific development and cooperative security on the West African coast”, in “pursuing national foreign policy objectives in the fulfillment of international commitments assumed by Portugal” before the Community of Portuguese-speaking countries, namely, Cape Verde, Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe.
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