Fifteen people are missing and three survivors were rescued. the “Villa de Pitanxo” had 22 crew members on board.
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Drama at sea. At least four crew members are dead, fifteen others are missing and three survivors have been rescued, after the sinking of a Spanish trawler in the night from Monday to Tuesday February 15 off the coast of Canada, a reported the Spanish Ministry of Transport.
Operations continue in the waters of Newfoundland, an island off the east coast of Canada, to try to find other survivors of this fishing boat based in the small port of Marín, Galicia, which had to on board 22 crew members.
The ministry specified that of the 22 crew members, 12 were of Spanish nationality. According to local Spanish media, the other ten sailors were Ghanaian and Peruvian. This is another Spanish boat, the Playa Menduina Doswho rescued the three survivors, said the same source, explaining that “For the moment, the causes of the accident are not known”.
The boat had a “accident” and “sent a distress signal”, and two ships came to its rescue, the head of Maritime Affairs of the Galician regional government told the press. The three rescued crew members were “evacuated by helicopter by Canadian sea rescue”she continued.
the Pitanxo Villa, a fifty-meter trawler flying the Spanish flag, belonged to the fishing group Nores. Founded in 1950, this company has eight refrigerated trawlers, 300 employees and is present in 60 countries around the world, according to its website.