Four dead when suspected migrant-smuggling boat breaks apart off San Diego
Reuters | May 03, 2021 04:16 PM EDT
Debris lies in the water after a deadly boat incident, where a 40 cabin cruiser broke up along rocks at Point Loma, San Diego, California, U.S. (Photo : San Diego Fire-Rescue Department via REUTERS)
Four people were killed and more than two dozen injured on Sunday when a boat suspected of attempting to smuggle migrants into California broke apart off Cabrillo National Monument at San Diego s rugged Point Loma, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The initial call arrived just before 10 a.m. (1700 GMT) and prompted a large emergency response, including the U.S. Coast Guard and state and local agencies, as the magnitude of the incident became clear.
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The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday suspended its response to a boat suspected of being used in a human smuggling operation that capsized and broke apart in powerful surf along the rocky San Diego coast, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others.
The search lasted through the night led by the Coast Guard Cutter Haddock and its crew. Officials on Sunday originally said four people aboard the boat had died, but the Coast Guard on Monday changed the number to three, citing information from the San Diego County Medical Examiner s office, according to Reuters. A total of 29 survived, according to authorities
May 3, 2021
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(SAN DIEGO) Three people have died after a crowded “smuggling vessel” hit a reef and capsized off the coast of San Diego on Sunday, officials said.
The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it has suspended its response after searching for survivors overnight.
Thirty-two people have been accounted for, the Coast Guard said. Twenty-nine people are alive, of which, five were taken to the hospital, with one of the five in critical condition, the Coast Guard said Monday.
The Coast Guard originally reported four deaths, but has since amended the number to three fatalities.
The crash took place shortly before 10 a.m. Sunday, when a call came in from a commercial vessel that reported there was another boat in trouble near Point Loma leading into San Diego Bay, according to Rick Romero of the San Diego Lifeguard Services. The vessel hit a reef and broke, said James Gartland, the lifeguard chief for the city of San Diego.