The boat was carrying 27 people when it sank 320km off the coast, authorities said.
A fishing boat carrying 27 people sank nearly 320km off the coast of the Falkland Islands, British and Spanish maritime officials said this morning, leaving at least six people dead and seven missing.
Spain's Pontevedra province in southeastern Galicia, identified 10 of the crew members as Spaniards. They declined to comment on the condition of crew members because relatives were still being notified.But on social media platform X, the provincial government identified one of the dead as the ship's cook from the north-western town of Baiona, and said there were several other nationalities among the crew.
The signal indicated that the boat was east of Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, when it began taking on water. At the time, the ship was sailing at a speed of 35 knots per hour, according to monitoring site MarineTraffic.com.A helicopter, another aircraft and several vessels were deployed in the rescue effort.
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