Spanish sea rescue vessels picked up nearly 500 migrants from Africa near the Canary Islands during the night, they said on Friday. More than 300 people were taken on board the search and rescue ship Guardamar Calliope and brought to the port city of La Restinga on the southern tip of El Hierro island, the Spanish sea rescue service wrote on X. At the same time, four other vessels were deployed, rescuing the remaining people and taking them to the Canary Islands of La Gomera and Lanzarote. In recent days, hundreds of migrants reached the Spanish archipelago off the west coast of Africa in smal…