At least seven crew members are dead and seventeen others are missing after the sinking of a Galician fishing boat It happened on Monday evening off the coast of Canada, as rescue efforts continue after the rescue of three survivors.
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According to the Spanish authorities, 24 people: 16 Spaniards, five Peruvians and three Ghanaians, were traveling on board the ship, the “Villa de Pitanxo”, when it sank around 04:30 GMT (00:30 local) 450 kilometers southeast of Newfoundland, an island off the east coast of Canada.
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Of them, three were saved from hypothermia, seven already deceasedafter the last update and about 14 people are still missing, said the Spanish Ministry of Transportwho had first pegged the fishing crew at 22.
After the search and rescue manoeuvres, authorities found three survivors, whose nationalities did not transpire and who were found in a lifeboat and were being taken to hospital, said Brian Owens of Canada’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre. The boat sank and has not yet been found.
“The fact that we have already found three survivors in a lifeboat gives us hope that others were able to put on their survival suits, get into the lifeboats and get off the ship,” he said. to the magazine. AFP Owens.
Additionally, Owens confirmed a few hours later that the number of people rescued had risen to seven, but not with the good news that many were expecting. “We recovered seven dead and three survivors”confirmed the official.
The current weather complicates our search. Waves are about four meters high and visibility is reduced to about a quarter of a nautical mile
The Canadian rescue services had a helicopter, a military plane, a Coast Guard vessel and several search boats.
The National Rescue Coordination Center in Madrid, which assists Spanish vessels sailing in international waters, received the first alert from “Villa de Pitanxo” at 5:24 a.m. Spanish time (11:24 p.m. Colombian time), and after being unable to contact the vessel, mobilized two vessels that were in the vicinity, according to a statement from the Ministry of Transport.
One of them, the “Playa Menduiña Dos” – also a Spanish fishing boat – is the one that “located three people in one of the rafts and several bodies”, indicated the ministry, when it managed to approach around 10:37. Spanish time (6:37 a.m. Colombia). The causes of the sinking are still unknown.
AFP
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